Photographer Wendel A. White: “Small Towns, Black Lives”

Southern New Jersey is home to several historically black communities that are documented in a book by Wendel A. White called “Small Towns, Black Lives: African American Communities in South Jersey.” Over ten years, the Stockton College professor and photographer took photographs and wrote text that together provide a complex look at the people, businesses, historic landmarks, landscapes, and other features that make up historically black communities such as Whitesboro and Lawnside. This 2003 “State of the Arts” story goes on location with White, and meets some of the subjects of his photographs in conjunction with his exhibition at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, New Jersey.