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I have always been fascinated with older photography. You can read so much into the lives of women back then by their clothing, there mannerisms, and what they are doing.--Nikole Wellman | I have always been fascinated with older photography. You can read so much into the lives of women back then by their clothing, there mannerisms, and what they are doing.--Nikole Wellman | ||
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| + | Many of Bubley's photographs, especially "waiting on the bus in memphis" capture the total war aspect of American society - even in a small, everyday activity like waiting for the morning bus, you can see how war has touched ordinary civilians - every man we see in the bus photograph is in uniform - almost every woman we see in these photographs is living a different life during the duration, whether through working in a man's job or rationing for the war - how different war was back then then it is today. ~Juliann Boyles | ||
== Mary McLeod Bethune on black women and the war effort, 1940 == | == Mary McLeod Bethune on black women and the war effort, 1940 == | ||
