henry anderson separate mississippi

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Separate, But Equal: The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson

5 reviews
Clifton L. Taulbert, Mary Panzer

PublicAffairs, 2002

An Unexplored History
Separate But Equal is a unique gem. A combination of historic photographs and personal essays, it chronicles the lives of an African American working middle-class living in the Mississippi Delta during the years of segregation. H.C. Anderson snapped the deceptively simple but beautiful photographs, and they are a revelation. Through the lens of his camera, he documented a segregated but proud ...

Separate, but Equal

2 reviews, ...

PublicAffairs, 2004

BLACK MIDDLE CLASS LIFE UNDER JIM CROW IN THE DEEP SOUTH...
This book is a moving pictorial testament to the daily life of middle class blacks in the deep South in the time of Jim Crow, as well as on the cusp of the civil rights movement. It is a slice of black life with which most whites at the time were unfamiliar, as most photo-journalists chose to capture the more sensational types of images in the black community. Henry Clay Anderson was a black ...