Photograph: Gordon Parks, courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation. This image of six-year-old Shirley Blackwell and her aunt outside a segregated store appeared in Life magazine in 1956 (Parks was its first Black staff photographer). Shirley’s mother, a teacher, was quoted as saying that “integration is the only way through which Negroes will receive justice”. As a result, she lost her job and her husband’s life was threatened.
Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a prominent American photographer, director, musician, and writer best known for his Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Civil Rights era photographs. He was born into a life of poverty and segregation but later went on to teach himself photography after seeing images of migrant workers published in a magazine. Notably, in 1944, Parks became the first African American photographer for Vogue, and later, the first African American staff photographer and writer for Life Magazine, where he worked from 1948–1970. During his tenure at Life, Parks explored stories about the social and economic impact of racism on the lived experiences of Black folks. He subsequently continued his photographic career and began to pursue writing and film.
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Before the "War on Poverty" and "War on Drugs" African American families HAD a FAMILY.
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Bad kids often got a whupping before they were brought home for the real whupping from their Daddy.
Aside from the hostility of mostly Democrats, they had successful communities and even Doctors, Lawyers and such "of color" running successful businesses.
The Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma had flourished as a neighborhood built by Black people, for Black people. In 1921 it was destroyed by a white mob.
https://www.history.com/articles/tulsa-race-massacre-facts
Not America's finest moment, right there beside having Japanese Americans build their own internment camps after stripping them of their homes and businesses.
YES, currently the 13% black population creates more than 59% of the crimes but who destroyed the black families creating "Baby Daddies" with welfare mommies and allowing "The YOUTHS" as Media calls them to have a revolving door, often out of jail before the police get the paperwork done?
That would be LBJ and the Rino's that helped get it done.
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We have seen the result of desegregation and "equal rights"....and it hasn't been pretty. One of the biggest mistakes ever made.
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