A choice of weapons
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St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, ♭2010.
Physical Desc
xx, 274 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Burlington School District - High School - NONFICTION
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Published
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, ♭2010.
Format
Book
Language
English
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Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1966.
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Gordon Parks--photographer for Life magazine, writer, composer, artist, and filmmaker--was only 16 in 1928 when he moved from Kansas to St. Paul, Minnesota, after his mother's death. There, homeless and hungry, he began his fight to survive, to educate himself, and to "prove my worth." Working as a janitor, railroad porter, musician, or basketball player in such places as St. Paul, Chicago, and New York, Parks struggled against poverty and racism. He taught himself photography with a secondhand camera, worked for black newspapers, and began to document the poverty among African Americans on Chicago's South Side. Then his photographic work brought him to Washington, D.C., as first a photographer with the federal Farm Security Administration and later a war correspondent during World War II. This compelling autobiography, first published in 1966, tells how Parks managed to escape the poverty and bigotry around him, and launch his distinguished career, by choosing the weapons given him by "a mother who placed love, dignity, and hard work over hatred." - Publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Parks, G., & Huie, W. Y. (2010). A choice of weapons . Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006 and Wing Young Huie. 2010. A Choice of Weapons. Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006 and Wing Young Huie. A Choice of Weapons Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Parks, Gordon, and Wing Young Huie. A Choice of Weapons Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2010.
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