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Article: Margaret Bourke-White: photojournalist: how one daring woman became "America's eyes".(American History Play)(Play)
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- Junior Scholastic
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- March 12, 2007
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PROLOGUE
In the early 20th century, female reporters and photographers were extremely rare, especially in war zones. Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White helped change that.
Bourke-White had a powerful calling card: She was a photographer for Life magazine. At a time before TV and the Internet, this weekly picture magazine influenced Americans in a way that is almost unimaginable today. In its pages, and on her own, Bourke-White created some of the most powerful images of mid-20th-century America. With the coming of World War II (1939-1945), her photographs of the conflict became a front seat to history for millions of people.
Narrator A: In ...