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Edwin Rosskam
Employees of Negro insurance company
| Date | July 1941 |
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| Location | Chicago Illinois United States |
| Dimensions | Image: 10 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. (26 x 34.3 cm) Paper: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) |
| Print medium | Photo-Gelatin silver |
African Americans were primarily employed in manual labor and service occupations before World War II. It was not until the 1940s that African American men doubled their proportion in clerical work and African American women quadrupled theirs, the results of improved educational opportunity in the North and the (relative) civil rights gains of the war years.
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Museum Purchase, 2003
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Accession No. 63.2003