The captions are John White's own, written some time after he took his photographs. In some cases White used virtually the same caption for several images.
"Religious fervor is mirrored on the face of a Black Muslim woman, one of some 10,000 listening to Elijah Muhammad deliver his annual Savior's Day message in Chicago. The city is headquarters for the Black Muslims. Their $75 million dollar empire includes a mosque, newspaper, university, restaurants, real estate, bank, and variety of retail stores. Muhammad died February 25, 1975."
Religious fervor is mirrored on the
face of a Black Muslim woman, one of some 10,000 listening to Elijah Muhammad
deliver his annual Savior's Day message in Chicago. March 1974 (NWDNS-412-DA-13792)
