Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

Gordon Parks

How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

2015 • 32 pages

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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.

February 9, 2021