Margaret Bourke-White was a photojournalist of many “firsts”: first female photographer for Life magazine, first western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union, first to shoot the cover photo for Life, and first female war correspondent. Bourke-White was well known for her photos of WWII—including concentration camps—but she also captured images reflecting the economic realities of her time, including the photo “At the Time of the Louisville Flood” (1937), which shows African Americans waiting in line for food against the backdrop of a billboard featuring a happy white family driving in a car.