Black Classroom, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956

Gordon Parks

1956; Portfolio published 2012

  • Titles Black Classroom, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956 (Proper)@Segregation Story (Portfolio)
  • Artist Gordon Parks, American, 1912 - 2006
  • Medium pigment print
  • Dimensions sheet: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) image: 15 5/8 × 10 7/8 in. (39.7 × 27.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, AFI.898.2012.6, image Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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