Gordon Parks’s Color Photographs of 1956 Segregated Alabama

Gordon Parks’s Color Photographs Show Intimate Views of Life in Segregated Alabama

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Two years after Brown v. Board of Education, Life magazine editors sent Parks—the first African American photographer to join the magazine’s staff—to the town of Shady Grove, Alabama. His assignment was to photograph a community still in stasis, where “separate but equal” still reigned. Parks arrived in Alabama as Montgomery residents refused to give up their bus seats, organized by a rising leader named Martin Luther King Jr.; and as the Klu Klux Klan organized violent attacks to uphold the structures of racial violence and division.

Parks returned with a rare view from a dangerous climate: a nuanced, lush series of an extended black family living an ordinary life in vivid color.

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Gordon Parks’s Color Photographs Show Intimate Views of Life in Segregated Alabama

https://www.artsy.net …s-life-segregated-alabama

Two years after Brown v. Board of Education, Life magazine editors sent Parks—the first African American photographer to join the magazine’s staff—to the town of Shady Grove, Alabama. His assignment was to photograph a community still in stasis, where “separate but equal” still reigned. Parks arrived in Alabama as Montgomery residents refused to give up their bus seats, organized by a rising leader named Martin Luther King Jr.; and as the Klu Klux Klan organized violent attacks to uphold the structures of racial violence and division.

Parks returned with a rare view from a dangerous climate: a nuanced, lush series of an extended black family living an ordinary life in vivid color.

Powerful images. Thanks for sharing this link !