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In poor cotton picker's cabin, far from the towns and cities where the civil rights agitation is taking place, a new force has entered the lives of the isolated Negro youths. Television, with its instant communication, direct to the living rooms of the poorest, has created a revolution the likes of which the world has not seen before. Television confronts today's Negro youth with a way of life completely at odds with his own experience. The richness advertised makes him acutely aware of the gulf separating his physical and moral condition from that of the whites, North Carolina

Leonard FreedWW-1964-526912
1964·vintage gelatin silver print·Image: 7 x 24.7 cm (2 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)

Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg

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Year
1964
Dimensions
Image: 7 x 24.7 cm (2 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)

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Year
1964
Dimensions
Image: 7 x 24.7 cm (2 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Watts ID
WW-1964-526912

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cleveland
Status
verified

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Leonard Freed

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