African American Photographs of the World War II Home Front: The Forgotten Work of Roger Smith

by Melton A. McLaurin

For less than eighteen months in 1942 and 1943, a young African American photographer named Roger Smith was the sole photographer for the Negro Section of the segregated United States Office of War Information (OWI). From the agency's office in Washington, DC, he worked in a rigidly segregated city and in an equally segregated federal government civil service. Despite the handicaps under which he labored, in that brief time Smith created a remarkable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1662954050
• ISBN13: 9781662954054
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"