The Jim Crow South: Gordon Parks photo series on exhibit
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By Carlos D. Williamson As a film director, the late Gordon Parks gave African-Americans empowering images in the 1970s with the blaxploitation hit “Shaft.” But Parks took a different approach with his photography and challenged bigots to second-guess the impact of segregation in the Jim Crow South, said Rhona Hoffman, director and owner of a […]