{"value"=>"<p>Series I contains Saunders' freelance files and includes prints, contact sheets, slides, and negatives from the 1940s through 1983.</p> <p>Assignments are arranged alphabetically by subject or publication. The primary coverage during this period includes the photographs of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam in New York City and Washington, DC in the 1960s. Another large project from this period includes coverage of James Farmer and his work as the founder and Director of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). The series also holds celebrity portraits Saunders took for the <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span> in 1964 and 1965, often assigned by <span class=\"title\">Sunday Times</span> editor, Sy Peck.</p> <p>The Pittsburgh Documentary Project is one folder of prints Saunders' made while working with Roy Stryker to document the deindustrialization of the Lower Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These photographs date from 1955 through 1961, but individual pictures have not been dated. These files contain solely black and white prints, without any negatives, slides, or contact sheets.</p>"}