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Notable Awards
- Jackie Robinson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award (2002)
- Induction in the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum (2002)
- Library of Congress National Film Registry Classics film honor for The Learning Tree (1989)
- National Medal of the Arts (1988)
- Emmy Award for documentry, Diary of a Harlem Family (1968)
- Julius Rosenwald Fellowship (1941)
Source: www.gale.com
The Kansas native who directed the 1971 detective movie Shaft died Tuesday at age 93. Gordon Parks died in New York with his two daughters and son by his side. Parks was a former life magazine photographer, and was a Trumpet Award Recipient.
Parks worked for Life magazine for 20 years beginning in 1948, photographing everything from fashion to politics to sports. Parks received the William Allen White Foundation 2006 National Citation from the KU School of Journalism last month.
Journalism Dean Ann Brill presented the award in New York, since Parks' doctor wouldn't let him travel to Lawrence. In a
video produced for the presentation, Parks described growing up in Fort Scott.
"My mother said she don't come home crying or complaining simply because you think you did not achieve because you were black. If a white boy can do it, you can do it," Parks said.
Parks described his Fort Scott childhood as marked by racism and poverty but also the love, discipline and religious faith of his parents. Parks will be buried next to his parent in Fort Scott, after a funeral in New York.
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