BLACK COUPLE AND THEIR DOG IN THEIR APARTMENT IN SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO. FROM 1960 TO 1970 THE PERCENTAGE OF CHICAGO BLACKS WITH AN INCOME OF $7,000 OR MORE JUMPED FROM 26 TO 58%. MEDIAN BLACK INCOME DURING THE PERIOD INCREASED FROM $4,000 TO $7,883. BUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEIR MEDIAN INCOME AND THAT OF WHITES INCREASED FROM $3,251 TO $3,603 DURING THE 10 YEARS

BLACK COUPLE AND THEIR DOG IN THEIR APARTMENT IN SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO. FROM 1960 TO 1970 THE PERCENTAGE OF CHICAGO BLACKS WITH AN INCOME OF $7,000 OR MORE JUMPED FROM 26 TO 58%. MEDIAN BLACK INCOME DURING THE PERIOD INCREASED FROM $4,000 TO $7,883. BUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEIR MEDIAN INCOME AND THAT OF WHITES INCREASED FROM $3,251 TO $3,603 DURING THE 10 YEARS

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The captions are John White`s own, written some time after he took his photographs. In some cases White used virtually the same caption for several images.

All photographs used in Portrait of Black Chicago were made from the original DOCUMERICA slides from the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (Record Group 412, "DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency`s Program to Photograph Subjects of Environmental Concern").

These images are available from the National Archives at College Park, MD. A NARA identification number appears at the end of each caption. Descriptions of the largest DOCUMERICA series are available in the NAIL database.

Information quoted from the "Portrait of Black Chicago" webpage: https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/portrait_of_black_chicago/credits_and_citations.html

White, John H., 1945-, Photographer

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The National Archives and Records Administration

6/1973

This image (or other media) is a work of an Environmental Protection Agency employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As works of the U.S. federal government, all EPA images are in the public domain.

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NWDNS-412-DA-13719

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