Gordon Parks
Birth date: November 30, 1912
Died: March 07, 2006
Gordon Parks's Books
(I have a 1963 battered hardcover via used bookstore.)
Full of amazing and historic photos. A nice coffee table book to pick up and page through every once in a while.
I'm fudging things a bit here since I've never read the whole book -- it's too painful.Some background: When I was in second grade, our teachers showed a filmed called "J.T." It's about a black kid growing up in an inner-city ghetto who befriends a stray cat. As this was not a comedy, you can guess ...