Russell Lee, During the services at storefront Baptist church on Easter Sunday. Chicago, Illinois, 1941

Russell Lee, Boy resting on bed in attic of sharecropper shack. New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938 — Russell Lee, During the services at storefront Baptist church on Easter Sunday. Chicago, Illinois, 1941
Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC

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