Photos from "12 Million Black Voices"

Link here to view the photographs from 12 Million Black Voices. Richard Wright's folk history of African Americans was first published in 1941 with photo direction by Edwin Rosskam. The photographs are integral to Wright's text and will be part of Dr. Kalinda Eaton's presentation on Richard Wright to be held at 6:30 on Wednesday Oct 14th at the Armstrong Center in the meeting suite.

Taken by the Farm Security Adminstration in the New Deal era, the photographs were gathered from the digital collections of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The book 12 Million Black Voices is on reserve at Lane Library.