Gordon Parks returned to his hometown in southeastern Kansas in the spring of 1950 to make the series of photographs that would accompany an article for Life magazine meant to center on the issue of segregated schools and their impact on black children in the years prior to the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision (1952-54). Fort Scott was the town that Parks had left more than twenty years earlier, and he used this assignment to revisit early memories of his birthplace, many involving serious racial ...
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Gordon Parks returned to his hometown in southeastern Kansas in the spring of 1950 to make the series of photographs that would accompany an article for Life magazine meant to center on the issue of segregated schools and their impact on black children in the years prior to the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision (1952-54). Fort Scott was the town that Parks had left more than twenty years earlier, and he used this assignment to revisit early memories of his birthplace, many involving serious racial discrimination, and to reconnect with eleven members of his junior high school graduation class and discover what had become of them since his departure. When Parks arrived in 1950, only one member of the class remained in Fort Scott, while the rest had followed the well-worn paths of the Great Migration in search of better lives in urban centers such as St. Louis, Kansas City, Columbus and Chicago. Traveling to these cities, Parks found his friends and their families and photographed them on their porches, in their parlors and dining rooms, on their way to church or at work, sitting down to interview them about their decision to leave the segregated system of their youth and head north. His resulting photo-essay and planned cover were finally slated to appear in Life in the spring of 1951, but were replaced by Truman's firing of General MacArthur and were never published. Co-published with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Gordon Parks Foundation
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FINE in FINE jacket. 143pp. B/W photobook. FINE in FINE dust jacket. 'Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott focuses on a little-known photo essay about school segregation undertaken by Gordon Parks in 1950 for Life. Because it never appeared in the pages of the magazine, few are aware of this landmark story, which brought Parks back to his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas, more than twenty years after he left as a teenager and moved north to Minnesota following the death of his mother. The issue of segregated education was regularly in the news during the years leading up to the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision (1954), and the state of Kansas was at the center of that debate. 'Back to Fort Scott' was one of the earliest civil rights assignments given to Parks after he became Life's first African A marican staff photographer, and it inspired him to revisit his own childhood and search hic classmates from the all-black Plaza School. Taking these striking portraits of his friends and their families as they recounted their life stories to him also motivated Parks to explore his own youthful memories of poverty and discrimination in his semiautobiographical novel and film The Learning Tree. '-From the DJ flap.
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