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NAACP photographs documenting labor and housing of African Americans at Mississippi River flood control and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) construction sites
- Title: NAACP photographs documenting labor and housing of African Americans at Mississippi River flood control and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) construction sites
- Date Created/Published: 1934.
- Medium: 50 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 cm.
- Summary: Snapshot photos of work sites and camps at Hughes, Ark.; Friar's point, Miss.; Memphis, Tenn., and possibly other unidentified locations, show African American workers, their families, and houses. Several photos of a child identified as the "baby who caused the change in the sanitary regulations"; some views of an industrial building and dam as well as tractors and hoisting machinery. Walter White, John P. Davis, and Charles Houston appear in several photos.
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
Publication may be restricted. For information see "Visual Materials from the NAACP ...,"(http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/086_naa.html)
- Call Number: LOT 13097 (F) USE MICROFILM [P&P]
- Notes:
- Collection finding aid available.
- Images available on microfilm (including finding aid). Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.
- In 1934 John P. Davis, Secretary of the Joint Committee of National Recovery, Charles Houston, Dean of Howard Law School, and Walter White, NAACP Secretary, made a tour through the Mississippi valley to investigate reported improvements in working and sanitary conditions of African Americans working on flood control projects. While in this area they also made an exploratory tour through the Tennessee Valley to investigate working conditions at TVA sites.
- Most images bear original handwritten or typed identifications.
- Photographs may have been taken by John P. Davis, Charles Houston and/or Walter White.
- Lot title devised.
- Forms part of: Visual materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records (Library of Congress).
- Subjects:
- Davis, John Preston,--1905.
- Houston, Charles Hamilton,--1895-1950.
- White, Walter,--1893-1955.
- Tennessee Valley Authority--People--1930-1940.
- Tennessee Valley Authority--Facilities--1930-1940.
- African Americans--Employment--Mississippi River Valley--1930-1940.
- African Americans--Employment--Tennessee River Valley--1930-1940.
- African Americans--Children--Mississippi River Valley--1930-1940.
- Flood control--Mississippi River Valley--1930-1940.
- Labor housing--Tennessee River Valley--1930-1940.
- Labor housing--Mississippi River Valley--1930-1940.
- Laborers--Mississippi River Valley--1930-1940.
- Laborers--Tennessee River Valley--1930-1940.
- Format:
- Collections:
- Part of: Visual materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records (Library of Congress)
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- Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Visual Materials from the NAACP ...," http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/086_naa.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: LOT 13097 (F) USE MICROFILM [P&P]
- Medium: 50 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 cm.
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- Call Number: LOT 13097 (F) USE MICROFILM [P&P]
- Medium: 50 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 cm.
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