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[Two black students at National Youth Administration library exhibit] – Vintage Wall Art

[Two black students at National Youth Administration library exhibit], [between 1935 and 1942(?)] — historic photograph
[Two black students at National Youth Administration library exhibit], [between 1935 and 1942(?)]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Two Black students stand at an exhibit in a library, a setting that shows how the National Youth Administration, the New Deal agency created in 1935, put young people to work in schools and public institutions. The NYA paid part-time wages to students so they could stay in school, and its Division of Negro Affairs, led by Mary McLeod Bethune, worked to extend those opportunities to Black youth, who had often been shut out of such aid. The photograph's date is uncertain, but it likely falls in the late 1930s, when the agency was at its height. It is worth noticing how the students are presented as capable participants in public learning rather than as subjects of charity.

Created / published[between 1935 and 1942(?)]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1950.
SubjectsUnited States.--National Youth Administration--Exhibitions & displays--1930-1950. African Americans--Education--1930-1950. Exhibitions--1930-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,153 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163292

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