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"Separate, but Equal," makes news in Mississippi.
Posted on May 16
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Separate, But Equal: New York Amsterdam News
Posted on May 12
The New York Amsterdam News is a weekly newspaper geared for the African-American community of New York City. It was founded on December 4, 1909 by James Henry Anderson in Harlem, New York. At its height in the 1940s it had a circulation of 100,000 and was one of the four largest African-American newspapers in the United States. It has published columns by such notables as W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Malcolm X.
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American Legacy
Winter 2004
Volume 9/Number 4
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"During my formative years in Atlanta, Georgia, my family and I lived in a segregated world, but it was not an unhappy world. We knew the system we lived under was unjust, but that didn't mean we didn't live our lives to the fullest. Ours was not a world of complaint; it was a world of structure and organization that enabled us to move forward with our lives. When I look at Henry Clay Anderson's extraordinary photographs of the people of Greenville, Mississippi, I see reflected in them the world that I once knew. These images reveal black life in the south for what it was- a life of hard work, strong faith and a belief in a brighter future-while still being mindful of the realities of segregation and discrimination. Anderson's photographs tell a powerful story, and I am glad to have them available to the generations that have come afterward."
- Vernon E. Jordan Jr. (Senior Managing Director of Lazard Freres.) |
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"In the midst of soul-numbing repression, in a society dedicated to the proposition that they were not fully human, the people caught in these pictures were simply indomitable. One of their own, Henry Clay Anderson, caught their joys, their resolve and their invincible optimism in moments of celebration, of raw grief and solemn observation, and of pure happiness. Humanity looks out of these pictures, a humanity that could not be denied."
- Hodding Carter (President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation). |
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"During a time of segregation in a place known for its turmoil, Henry Clay Anderson's lens captured the forgotten joys of the quotidian...There is a sheer and quiet luminosity to this photographer's work... [his] heart and craft lay in his portraits of folk who stared at a camera with optimism and—damn the uncertainties around them—a ferociousness of pride." —The Washington Post |
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"Anderson's photos...show the dignified, celebratory, exuberant aspects of black life in Mississippi at that time—a life that could not be suppressed by onerous laws or restrictive social covenants."
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| "In many ways, "Separate, But Equal" rebuts the conventional images of blacks in the rural South, by its very pedestrian observations... At a time when that history of cruelty under segregation is endlessly recycled, it is refreshing to see the images in "Separate, But Equal", knowing that it represents a truer version of black life in the Deep South for those of us who lived it." —Black Issues Book Review |
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| "The 130 photos here are historical documents of a special sort...The stories [Anderson] tells with his camera are worth revisiting." —Miami Herald |
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