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Operation Exodus / Wilson-Haffenden D.J.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: PicturePublication details: London : Marshall, Morgan and Scott, c1957.Description: 62 p. ; 19 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 22 222.17 EXO
LOC classification:
  • LOOK - Job 68-3649
 In: Look magazine photograph collection (Library of Congress)Subject: Photographs show black activist Ellen Jackson, of Boston, Mass., head of Operation Exodus, a private effort to bus African American children out of the black community to schools in white neighborhoods. Includes Jackson working at Operation Exodus with other volunteers; with children waiting for the bus; testifying before the Boston School Committee(?); with school committeeman Paul R. Tierney; meeting with a men's group. Also African American school children riding on a school bus; white teachers helping black children after school; photographer John Vachon taking pictures of children and stuffing envelopes at Operation Exodus headquarters; photographer Mary Ellen Mark in Ellen Jackson's kitchen.
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Books Bishop Barham University College Library Open Access / General collection 222.17 EXO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4307BBUC

Job title and date from photographers' logbook.

Photographs show black activist Ellen Jackson, of Boston, Mass., head of Operation Exodus, a private effort to bus African American children out of the black community to schools in white neighborhoods. Includes Jackson working at Operation Exodus with other volunteers; with children waiting for the bus; testifying before the Boston School Committee(?); with school committeeman Paul R. Tierney; meeting with a men's group. Also African American school children riding on a school bus; white teachers helping black children after school; photographer John Vachon taking pictures of children and stuffing envelopes at Operation Exodus headquarters; photographer Mary Ellen Mark in Ellen Jackson's kitchen.

Publication may be restricted. For information see "Look Magazine Photograph Collection, Rights and Restrictions Information."

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/074_look.html

7 images published in: Cities: the black heart of Boston, by Anthony Woolf, Look, v. 32, no. 12 (June 11, 1968), p. m12-m16.

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