In the Spirit of Sankofa,
Life Never Ran These Striking Images of What It Was Like to Be Black in 1950s America
Gordon Parks hadn’t been to his hometown, Fort Scott, Kansas, in more than 20 years when he returned there in 1950 as a photojournalist on assignment for Life magazine. Growing up as the youngest of 15 children, Parks attended the Plaza School, an all-black grade school in the heavily segregated town. Now, as the first black man hired full-time by the magazine, Parks wanted to find and photograph all 11 of his classmates from grade school as a way of measuring the impact of school segregation. The photo essay he created, which was never published, was on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the exhibition, “Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott,” in 2015 ...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2...presents_photos_by_gordon_parks_of_black.html
Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, 1950
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Life Never Ran These Striking Images of What It Was Like to Be Black in 1950s America
Gordon Parks hadn’t been to his hometown, Fort Scott, Kansas, in more than 20 years when he returned there in 1950 as a photojournalist on assignment for Life magazine. Growing up as the youngest of 15 children, Parks attended the Plaza School, an all-black grade school in the heavily segregated town. Now, as the first black man hired full-time by the magazine, Parks wanted to find and photograph all 11 of his classmates from grade school as a way of measuring the impact of school segregation. The photo essay he created, which was never published, was on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the exhibition, “Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott,” in 2015 ...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2...presents_photos_by_gordon_parks_of_black.html
Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, 1950
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