Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: MERRITT III, Vernon
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.243578

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten in pencil: WORKERS BOTH BOYS + GIRLS PUTTING ON ROOF OF / CHURCH. THESE GIRLS + BOYS- many unoccustomed TO / PHYSICAL LABOR- WORK from daylight to dark in / FREEZING WEATHER IN A RACE AGAINST TiME./ SCHOOL STARTS AGAIN JAN 4TH + THE KIDS PLAN TO / LEAVE ON JAN 2.; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit::; handwritten in blue ink; VERNON MERRiTT; stamped in black ink; from BLACK STAR; [vertical blue ink mark]; handwritten in pencil: 148-888;

Tagasauris Keywords: Aerial View; Architecture; Automobile; Community; Construction; Day; Face; Female; Full-Length Portrait; Group; Group of people; Group of people; Hammer; Low angle View; Male and Female; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Panoramic; Religion and belief; Roof; Rural; Social issues; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS / CHURCH REBUILDING MISSISSIPPI
Retouching: N