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Gordon Parks’ Testimony of Black Life in America

Originally Published in 1971, Gordon Park’s Born Black was the first book to unite both Parks’ writing and photography. The book focused on Park’s work documenting a crucial decade for both Civil Rights and Black Power movements. A new expanded edition and an exhibition reveal previously unpublished photographs, archival material, and new scholarly essays.
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In 1970, Gordon Parks, from New York City, wrote the introduction to the original publication of his book Born Black. "In the last ten years black Americans have turned four hundred years of despair and oppression into an era of rebellion and hope. I...

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Robert E. Gerhardt

Robert Gerhardt is a New York based photographer and freelance writer. His photographs and writings have been published nationally and internationally including in The Hong Kong Free Press, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Diplomat.

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