- Created by
- Schwartz, Joe, American, 1913 - 2013
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Date
- 1940s
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 10 7/8 x 14 in. (27.6 x 35.6 cm)
- Caption
- Does Discriminate - National Negro Congress Citizen's Civics Affairs Committee, First Black women to picket chain for jobs, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's
- Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 116.
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of two girls protesting in front of an F. W. Woolworth's store. The pair wear signs announcing that "Woolworth refuses to hire Negro sale girls."
- Place depicted
- Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- Labor
- Photography
- Race discrimination
- Segregation
- Urban life
- Women
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Joe Schwartz and Family
- Object number
- 2010.74.97
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Joe Schwartz
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




