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Photograph: Group Portrait, Church Of The First Born Of The Living God

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Thomas, R. Lee

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Image of five rows of men, women and children sitting and standing in a church. Men in front holding a banner. Banner: BHAM NOV 7.48. CHURCH OF THE FIRST BORN OF THE LIVING GOD BISHOP L.R. DAVIS. Date: 11/7/1948. One of 156 black and white photographs by R. Lee Thomas, an African American photographer active in the early twentieth century in the southern United States. Thomas’ work provides photographic documentation of southern black social life, primarily religious and labor groups, circa 1946-1949. The majority of the photographs depict groups from Birmingham, Alabama, and adjacent areas. His imprint contains the caption: Made by R. Lee Thomas, Mound Bayou, Mississippi, The Oldest Negro Town in America.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/rthomas/1162/thumbnail.jpg
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Keywords

  1. African American Photographers
  2. African American Studies
  3. African Americans
  4. Alabama
  5. Arts And Humanities
  6. Birmingham
  7. Church Of The First Born Of The Living God
  8. Church Of The First Born Of The Living God (Birmingham, Ala.)
  9. Eartha M.M. White Collection
  10. History
  11. Mississippi
  12. Mound Bayou
  13. Photograph Collections
  14. Photographers, Black
  15. Photography
  16. Pictorial Works
  17. Race, Ethnicity And Post Colonial Studies
  18. Religious Gatherings
  19. Religious Life
  20. Thomas, R. Lee, (Photographer)

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