Segregation Story

High Museum of Art

Atlanta, GA

November 15, 2014 - June 21, 2015

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Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956

Untitled, Alabama, 1956

Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956

Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956

Press Release

Gordon Parks: Segregation Story is showing 40 rarely seen pictures from Gordon Parks' Life magazine assignment to document an extended African American family living in Jim Crow segregation in Alabama. The exhibition is on display from November 15th 2014 through June 7th 2015 at the High Museum in Atlanta, GA.

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