Vera Jackson was a “pioneer woman photographer in the black press”. She photographed African-American social life and celebrity culture in the 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles. Noted photographic subjects included major league baseball player Jackie Robinson, educator Mary McLeod Bethune, and actresses Dorothy Dandridge, Hattie McDaniel and Lena Horne. Continue reading Profile: Vera Jackson (1912-1999)
Carita Letitia Huckaby is an American photographer who creates multimedia artwork combining photography and textiles to depict both family narratives and African American history. Continue reading Profile: Letitia Huckaby (1972-)
Chester Higgins Jr. is an American photographer, who was a staff photographer with The New York Times for more than four decades, and whose work has notably featured the life and culture of people of African descent. Continue reading Profile: Chester Higgins Jr. (1946-)
Paul Samuel Henderson was an African-American photojournalist for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper from 1929 through circa 1960. He became well known for taking pictures of large groups and distant objects atop a ladder he carried. Henderson primarily photographed people, including church groups, politicians, graduations, local college and university groups, weddings, events during the Civil Rights Movement, and more. He was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a vestryman at St. James Church, a charter member of the Druid Hill Avenue Neighborhood Club, assistant treasurer of a local Frontiers International club, and supported The Salvation Army. Continue reading Profile: Paul Henderson (photojournalist) October 10, 1899 – May 24, 1988)
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