1942 Civilian defense activities among negroes in the nation's capital

Washington, D.C. July-August, 1942. Civilian defense activities among negroes in the nation's capital
Title: Washington, D.C. July-August, 1942. Civilian defense activities among negroes in the nation's capital
Creator(s): Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, photographer
Related Names:
United States. Farm Security Administration.
Date Created/Published: 1942 July-Aug.
Summary: Photographs show Washington, D.C. Civilian defense activities among blacks in the nation's capital. Meetings of auxiliary police and air raid wardens. Portrait of a junior air raid warden at the Frederick Douglass housing project.
Notes:
Photographed by Gordon Parks for the Farm Security Administration.
LOT title and other information from catalog card and published guide: Washingtoniana photographs ... Library of Congress, 1989.
Negative nos. 13366-13399; control card nos. 1300, 1356.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
Forms part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Washington (D.C.)
African Americans--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950.
Civil Defense--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950.
Photographic prints--1940-1950.
Bookmark /2004667420/
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