print email comment close The Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/collections/jdavis/ Description: A collection of nearly 6,000 photographs taken from 1915-1930 of "African American schools, teachers and students throughout the Southeastern United States." Davis "intended to demonstrate the wretched conditions of African American schools in the south and to show how they could be improved." Also includes hundreds of scenes taken in several African countries. Searchable by keyword, date, or geographic location. From the Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia. Publisher: The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Extra Keywords liberia congo Library of Congress Subject Headings: African Americans -- Education African Americans -- Photographs LII Database Information: Record 18030 created by Dana Lubow on 11/15/1999 Last modification on 11/20/2004 Published: 11/15/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/18030