http://www.icp.org/browse/archive/collections/documentary-arts-selections

Eugene Roquemore, Photography Class Taught by Curtis Humphrey at Wiley College, Marshall, Texas, ca. 1947. Courtesy Documentary Arts Collection/International Center of Photography.

The TAAP Archive, founded by Govenar and Kaleta Doolin, traces the growth and development of vernacular and community photography among African Americans in Texas, including Alonzo Jordan, Marion Butts, Louise Martin, Elnora Frazier, Juanita Williams, and Benny Joseph, among others. View a selection of the Documentary Arts images on the ICP website.

Louise Martin, Coretta Scott King, Houston, Texas, 1970. Courtesy Documentary Arts Collection/International Center of Photography.

Marion Butts, NAACP Picket, Front row: (left to right) C. Jack Clark, Travis Clark, Roosevelt Johnson; Second row: C. B. Bunkley,, unknown, George Allen; Third row: Tony Davis; Fourth row: (right) Pettis Norman; Fifth row: Frank Clark, Dallas, Texas, 1965. Courtesy Documentary Arts Collection/International Center of Photography.

It’s worth noting that this isn’t the institution’s first archive of African-American photography, the ICP already has in its Collections the Daniel Cowin Collection of African-American History acquired in 1990.
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