1940’s America was a cruel place for blacks. Segregation was imbedded in the code of law as well as the everyday fabric of life.
Defying caricature, White saw the people with whom he shared a culture as much more than marginalized and dimensionless.
Throughout capturing African Americans in a chronicle way, White's works not only represent an epitome of unfair discrimination which has been morally justified, but also speaking for the lower class of color people at them time, their strength to fight, and their shine in eyes will not surrender to this desperate, frustrating reality.
