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Black America as Told by Those Who Lived It

The exhibition “Black Photojournalism” on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, presents work by nearly 60 photographers chronicling historic events and daily life in the United States from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to the presidential campaigns of 1984.
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At the end of World War II, Black service members returned home from overseas where they had fought against fascism and imperialism and for democracy. But the country they returned to was one where they did not have equal rights to those of the white...

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Robert E. Gerhardt

Robert Gerhardt is a New York based photographer and freelance writer. His photographs and writings have been published nationally and internationally including in The Hong Kong Free Press, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Diplomat.

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