VIDEO: “Inside the lost photos of Gordon Parks,” CBS News

Gordon Parks Department Store, Mobile, Alabama,1956 2013 Archival pigment print, Ed. of 7 34 x 34 inches 40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (framed) © The Gordon Parks Foundation

Gordon Parks, Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956, 2013
© The Gordon Parks Foundation

Gordon Parks courageous photography helped awaken America at the dawn of the civil rights era. He was a master of portraying people from every walk of life. But for years some of Parks’ most important early work seemed lost. Now, as Anthony Mason reports, a new generation of Americans can see it for themselves.

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