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Gordon Parks, acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, dies at 93

Gordon Parks remembered

Gordon Parks' many artistic faces

An honor for one who scratched 'the itch'

In this 1996 speech from the Westminster Town Hall Forum, the late filmmaker, photographer, writer and composer Gordon Parks explains how he went from taking pictures in a St. Paul clothing store to becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a major Hollywood movie.

Gordon Parks tells his remarkable life story

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