Elder wearing a homespun calico uniform and apron from another time. She is composed in a 3/4 length portrait on her own and in the companion piece, her employer reads aloud from the bible. The...
A significant image, the painstaking intent to erase speaks volumes. The following measures have been taken to obfuscate any hint of the Reconstruction Era nurse beyond any I've ever seen employed in a 'Hidden Mother'. ...
American Tobacco withheld war time wages during record profits and were actively trying to discourage union membership (had been voted through in 1944) when 1000 primarily black women in the Charleston shop called action which...