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Priest giving sermon, South Carolina

1965

Leonard Freed

(American, 1929–2006)
Culture
America
Medium
vintage gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 15.9 x 24 cm (6 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 18.4 x 25 cm (7 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2016.279
Copyright
© Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

“A wiry jolly grandma dressed in her Sunday best” grabbed Freed’s arm after a church service and suggested he come along to a funeral at a church down the road. “‘It’s a fine funeral, isn’t it’? she said. . . . I asked if she knew the person who died. ‘No,’ she said. It was a young woman who had gone North some years ago, suddenly she became sick and died. Now she had been shipped home to the family. The turnout was good, with people coming from miles around.” —from Black in White America

Priest giving sermon, South Carolina

1965

Leonard Freed

(American, 1929–2006)
America

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