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“I had done some fashion work in St. Paul and I had principally gone to Chicago to shoot fashion, but I found myself doing more and more work on the south side, the poverty stricken areas where the blacks lived. That is what got me a Rosenwald Fellowship, the first one ever given in photography. At the time, Jack Delano was in Chicago and he encouraged me to come to the Farm Security Administration.

I wanted to work at the FSA because they were doing what I wanted to do – exposing poverty in America- and along with poverty I wanted to expose racism in America, so I sort of fit right into the grove.

“Roy Stryker [head of FSA] didn’t want to take me on at first because of the racism that was in Washington in 1942. The whole laboratory was from the south and Roy felt that I was going to have a hard time. But the Julius Rosenwald people encourage him and told him that I had to take care of myself. When FSA broke up, I was the only photographer on the staff that the lab......

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