Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks (born 1912) is an African American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist, and film director. He has been an important and creative force in all of these fields. He began his public career as a freelance fashion and personality photographer in Chicago, but his first substantial work came as a documentary photographer with the Farm Security Administration. He has also performed as a jazz pianist. He directed a number of movies during the "Blaxploitation" phase of American cinema, though the films cannot be classified that way. He was a notable campaigner for civil rights in the US. He has also been the subject of film and print profiles (notably "Half Past Autumn" (2000)).

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Parks' late son, Gordon Parks, Jr., directed a few blaxploitation films including Superfly.

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1912: 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday....

African American: African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans, Black Americans, or simply blacks are an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to West and Central Africa. Many African Americans have European and/or Native American ancestry as well....

Farm Security Administration: Created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his New Deal, the Farm Security Administration was a depression-era agency that granted small farmers and tenant farmers in the United States money to purchase farms. The FSA was created when its predecessor, the Resettlement Administration, was...

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