Row houses, ca. 1975
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
Joan Clark Netherwood, photographer
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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These are the images and accounts of how people worked, raised families, built communities, worshiped, maintained relationships, expressed themselves and coped with changes and challenges in the past. Most of the subjects are Americans of African descent.
"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go." — James Baldwin
