The captions are John White's own, written some time after he took his photographs. In some cases White used virtually the same caption for several images.

"Black youths play basketball at Stateway Gardens' high-rise housing project on Chicago's South Side. The complex has eight buildings with 1,633 two and three bedroom apartments housing 6,825 persons. They were built under the U.S. Housing Acts of 1949 and 1968. They are managed by the Chicago Housing Authority which is responsible for 41,500 public housing dwellings."