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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart   Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in 1963. But it was music … Continue reading "Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice" The post Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice appeared first on Flashbak.
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