Review of \u3ci\u3eCalvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White\u3c/i\u3e by Bob Ray Sanders

Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White came about through the confluence of two significant events around 1994: the enthusiastic reception surrounding the publication of a similarly themed title, Behold the People: R. C. Hickman\u27s Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949-1961; and Littlejohn\u27s family contacting the director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin about possibly donating his prints and negatives there. These are significant because they point to the need for an archive to preserve and organize material of this scope-some 70,000 negatives and 55,000 prints made over the course of a more than fifty-year career-as well as the identification of an audience for this historical, regional subject matter