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“Back to Fort Scott” was one of the earliest civil rights assignments given to Parks after he became Life’s first African American staff photographer, and it inspired him to revisit his own childhood and search for his classmates from the all-Black Plaza School.
- Back to Fort Scott, 1950 - Photography Archive - Gordon Parks
Back to Fort Scott, 1950. Pool Hall, Fort Scott, Kansas,...
- Back to Fort Scott - Gordon Parks Foundation Gallery - The ...
On assignment for Life magazine in 1950, Gordon Parks...
- Back to Fort Scott, 1950 - Photography Archive - Gordon Parks
Back to Fort Scott, 1950. Pool Hall, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1950. A year after Life hired him, the magazine sent Parks back to Fort Scott, Kansas, where he had spent his first 16 years, attending the town’s small segregated schools.
For an assignment on the impact of school segregation, Parks returned to Fort Scott to revisit early memories of his birthplace––many involving racial discrimination––and to reconnect with childhood friends, all of whom went to the same all-black elementary school that Parks had attended.
Apr 8, 2017 · On assignment for Life magazine in 1950, Gordon Parks returned to his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas after twenty years away; the resulting body of work became perhaps the most personal in the photographer’s long career. Initially assigned to do a piece about school segregation, Parks tracked down his classmates from the all-black school he ...
Jul 23, 2016 · Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott revives those photos and presents a rarely seen view of the everyday lives of African American citizens, years before the civil rights movement began in earnest. Exclusive to VMFA’s presentation of this exhibition is Parks at Life: Works from VMFA’s Collection.
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.
Jan 13, 2015 · The premise lends the exhibition, which opens this Saturday, its title: “Back to Fort Scott.” The idea for the exhibition developed when Lane Curator of Photographs Karen Haas realized that the date on a Parks photograph from the museum’s collection was probably incorrect.
