In September 1956, Life magazine published a photo-essay by Gordon Parks entitled "The Restraints: Open and Hidden," which documented the everyday activities and rituals of one extended African American family living in the rural South under Jim Crow segregation. One of the most powerful photographs depicts Joanne Thornton Wilson and her niece, Shirley Anne Kirksey, standing in front of a theater in Mobile, Alabama, an image which became a forceful "weapon of choice," as Parks would say, in the struggle against racism and ...
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In September 1956, Life magazine published a photo-essay by Gordon Parks entitled "The Restraints: Open and Hidden," which documented the everyday activities and rituals of one extended African American family living in the rural South under Jim Crow segregation. One of the most powerful photographs depicts Joanne Thornton Wilson and her niece, Shirley Anne Kirksey, standing in front of a theater in Mobile, Alabama, an image which became a forceful "weapon of choice," as Parks would say, in the struggle against racism and segregation. While 26 photographs were eventually published in Life and some were exhibited in his lifetime, the bulk of Parks' assignment was thought to be lost. In 2011, five years after Parks' death, The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered more than 70 color transparencies at the bottom of an old storage bin marked "Segregation Series" that are now published for the first time in Segregation Story .
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Good++ in a Very Good Minus dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, just one faint mark to the back where a sticker was removed, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Clean boards with a couple minor blemishes; Unblemished textblock edges; Mark inside the back cover where a sticker was removed; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (11.75"-12.75" tall); 2.3 lbs; White dust jacket with photo of black and white women on train, and title in red lettering; 2015, Steidl Publishing; 112 pages; "Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, " by Gordon Parks.
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Good+ in a Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, just moderate scuffing around the corners, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Library stamps to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Excellent binding with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (11.75"-12.75" tall); 2.3 lbs; White dust jacket with photo of black and white women on train, and title in red lettering; 2015, Steidl Publishing; 112 pages; "Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, " by Gordon Parks.
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** First Edition **; Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears or library markings, just a few minor scratches to the back, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Library stamps to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Excellent binding with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (11.75"-12.75" tall); White dust jacket with photo of black and white women on train, and title in red lettering; 2014, Steidl Publishing; 112 pages; "Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, " by Gordon Parks.
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Very Good in a Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Second Edition, 2015; Dust jacket has a few scratches and small handling-marks, otherwise is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); 2.3 lbs; White dust jacket with photo of black and white women on train, and title in red lettering; 2015, Steidl Publishing; 112 pages; "Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, " by Gordon Parks.
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