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Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder and former president and director of the NYA (National Youth Administration) Negro Relations

Gordon Parks

Credit: Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
January 1943, printed later
Gelatin silver print
2016.117.120
Image © National Gallery of Art, 2020

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