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I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

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Gordon Parks
Age: 93 †
Born: 1912
Born: November 30
Died: 2006
Died: March 7
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Fort Scott
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Gordon Alexander Buchanan Parks
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