A group of 252 works spanning the influential Black photographer’s long career will be housed at the Washington HBCU’s research center.
The Gordon Parks Legacy Collection will be housed in the university’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, where students and faculty — from history, African American studies and the arts — can access the images for classwork, research, exhibitions and public programs.
is an important addition to an archive that includes materials from Amiri Baraka, Mary Frances Berry, Paul Robeson and Frederick Douglass. Perspective: Marian Anderson's Lincoln Memorial concert wasn't the moment of racial reconciliation we'd like to thinkdid not finish high school and had no formal training in photography. He began documenting African American life in the 1940s, including a stint in Washington in 1942, when he worked for the Farm Security Administration. Some of his photographs of the city from this period are included in the acquisition.
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