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Gordon Parks

1912-2006. Photographer, musician, writer and film director who got his start as a photojournalist with the Farm Security Administration. The first African-American to work as a staff photographer for Life magazine and the first black artist to produce and direct a major Hollywood film ("The Learning Tree," 1969).

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