Historic Images of African-American Life During the Depression
Gordon Parks / FSA / OWI / Library of Congress
1942
Ella Watson, a charwoman in an office building, lost her father to a lynch mob, her husband to a bullet, and an eighteen year old daughter who died in childbirth.
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