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  Title

  To smile in autumn : a memoir First University of Minnesota Press edition.

  Author

  Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006  

  Publisher:

  University of Minnesota Press,

  Pub date:

  2009.

  Description:

  249 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates :

  ISBN:

  0816665559

  Item info:

  1 copy currently available - Tuckahoe Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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    BIO PARKS GORDON	1	Adult book	Biography collection

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  To smile in autumn : a memoir First University of Minnesota Press edition.
  Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
  

  Personal Author:

  Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006

  Title:

  To smile in autumn : a memoir / Gordon Parks ; foreword by Alexs D. Pate.

  Edition:

  First University of Minnesota Press edition.

  Publication Info:

  Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

  Physical descrip:

  249 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

  Contents:

  Foreword / Alexs D. Pate -- Garbage cans and supper -- "Welcome to Life!" -- Assignment -- An island unto myself -- Two years in Paris -- Music, poetry, and discarded heroes -- From Farouk, a tennis racquet : from Churchill, a fat cigar -- Preparing for the smoldering fire -- Gloria Vanderbilt and her dreams -- Breakup with Sally -- Freddie: "segregation in the south" -- Execution at San Quentin -- Duke Ellington: "Big Red" -- The Learning Tree and Elizabeth -- Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and "white devils" -- Genevieve Young and A Choice of Weapons -- Malcolm X murdered. Parks next? -- Unfaithful to my emotions? -- A son goes to war -- Muhammad Ali and Vietnam -- Love, war, and confusion -- Stokely Carmichael, "No more running!" -- "Why are Negroes looting and burning ...? -- Leslie Campbell Parks is born -- Diary of a Harlem family -- "I don't want a long funeral." : Martin Luther King -- Gun power: the Black Panthers -- "We want you in the Black Panthers" -- The Learning Tree cameras roll -- To open doors -- "The Spingarn Medal will suffice" -- Genevieve: "Ah, love, let us be true ..."

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  Personal subject:

  Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006.

  Subject term:

  African American photographers--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Photographers--United States--Biography.