Chester Higgins,Jr. - SOME TIME AGO: a Historical Portrait of Black Americans

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Chester Higgins,Jr. - SOME TIME AGO: a Historical Portrait of Black Americans:
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From 1850 - 1950. \" By Chester Higgins,Jr. & Orde Coombs. Anchor Press/ Doubleday,1980. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER ORIGINAL. 206 pages.FILLED WITH RARE BLACK & WHITE PHOTOS.\" SOME TIME AGO chronicles one hundred years of the Black experience in America.This rare and beautiful documentary depicts the many roles of Blacks in shaping our national character and culture .Chester Higgins,Jr.,has traveled the country researching and collecting the works of the earliest photographers to assemble this visual record that spans from pre-Civil War years through the nineteen-forties from Clarksdale,Mississippi ,and Waycross,Georgia to Harlem and Detroit.With the aid of archivists,colleagues,collectors,and his former teachers,Higgins discovered photographers whose work had been unnoticed or forgotten.The most striking features of this historical and cultural treasure is the \"feel\" of the places from the past - the fields,juke joints,barbershops,northern city streets;and the faces themselves,familiar and unknown: of of daughters and sons.There are nearly 200 photographs in all,culled from attics,libraries,and museums . \"