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Self portrait of photographer Boyd Lewis in the rear view mirror of his car in Atlanta, Georgia.Boyd Henry Lewis, Jr. (1944- ) is a photographer, teacher, and former journalist whose work with black-owned newspapers in Atlanta, Georgia, including the Atlanta Voice and Atlanta Inquirer, earned him the nickname "the white boy with the black press" by civil rights leader John Calhoun.

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Atlanta History Center

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. Atlanta
  2. Automobiles
  3. Cameras
  4. Georgia
  5. Lewis, Boyd, 1944
  6. Photographers
  7. Photojournalists
  8. Portraits

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