BLACK SIDEWALK SALESMEN ARRANGING THEIR FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE. MANY OF THE CITY’S BLACK BUSINESSMEN STARTED SMALL AND GREW BY WORKING HARD. TODAY CHICAGO IS BELIEVED TO BE THE BLACK BUSINESS CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES. BLACK ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE REPORTED IN 1973 THAT THE CITY HAD 14 OF THE TOP 100 BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES IN THE COUNTRY, ONE MORE THAN NEW YORK CITY

BLACK SIDEWALK SALESMEN ARRANGING THEIR FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE. MANY OF THE CITY’S BLACK BUSINESSMEN STARTED SMALL AND GREW BY WORKING HARD. TODAY CHICAGO IS BELIEVED TO BE THE BLACK BUSINESS CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES. BLACK ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE REPORTED IN 1973 THAT THE CITY HAD 14 OF THE TOP 100 BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES IN THE COUNTRY, ONE MORE THAN NEW YORK CITY

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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.

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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