Sunday, January 17, 2010
Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday
Jack Delano, "Negro Driver Asleep under a Truck," 1940. From the FSA photography collection at the Library of Congress. Notes on the photograph indicate that it was taken in Washington, D.C., in June 1940, and provide this description: "Negro driver asleep under a truck. There are no sleeping accomodations for Negroes at this service station. On U.S. 1."
Labels:
Jack Delano,
Jim Crow,
photography,
race
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment