Gordon Parks
How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
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Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his life changed forever. He taught himself how to take pictures and before long, people noticed.
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This is the story of Gordon Parks.
You'll all wind up porters and waiters. Gordon's white teacher tells this to her all-black class.
And he grew up to be a busboy, a piano player, and, eventually, a porter and a waiter.
But that wasn't the end of his story. He bought a used camera and learned to take pictures and he became a world-famous photographer, using the lens of his camera to right the wrongs of segregation and racism.
An inspiring story.
