Thomas L. Johnson
A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936
A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936
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The nearly two hundred photographs in A True Likeness were selected from three thousand glass plates that had been stored for decades in a crawl space under the Roberts home. The collection includes "true likenesses" of teachers, preachers, undertakers, carpenters, brick masons, dressmakers, chauffeurs, entertainers, and athletes, as well as the poor, with dignity and respect and an eye for character and beauty.
Thomas L. Johnson and Phillip C. Dunn received a 1987 Lillian Smith Book Award for their work on this book. This new edition of A True Likeness features a new foreword by Elaine Nichols, the supervisory curator of culture at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. A new afterword is provided by Thomas L. Johnson.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Johnson, Thomas L.
Published: 07/30/2019
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781643360164
Pages: 208
Weight: 2.90lbs
Size: 11.90h x 10.00w x 0.60d
