The NAACP awarded the Spingarn Medal to Gordon B. Parks “in recognition of his unique creativity, as exemplified by his outstanding achievements as photographer, writer, filmmaker, and composer.”
Parks was a true Renaissance man — the first African American photographer for Life magazine, the director of groundbreaking films like Shaft (1971) and The Learning Tree (1969), and a powerful storyteller whose work chronicled the struggles and beauty of Black life in America.
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