A Million Faces: The Photography of John W. Mosley

John W. Mosley (1907-1969) is counted among the important photojournalists of the 20th-century. He chronicled the vitality of Philadelphia's black community and life in the segregated city from the 1930s through the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Filled with "a million faces" of families, weddings, picnics, musicians, celebrities, athletes, and church events, as well as segregated beaches, civil rights protests, and political leaders, Mosley's pictures offer a rare window onto life in Philadelphia from the early 1940s through 1969.