Links to the News

Poynter Online's Links to the News column compiles Web resources on current and previous news topics. This page links to resources about Gordon Parks.

•  Stories about Gordon Parks (March 7-8, 2006)
  
  The Washingon Post
  http://www.washingtonpost.com
  NPR
  http://www.npr.org
  The New York Times
  http://www.nytimes.com
  MSNBC
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11717768/
  BBC News
  http://news.bbc.co.uk 
  
  
• Poynter Online
  
  Gordon Parks: From Country Boy to Renaissance Man
  A True Photographic Idol, IN MEMORIAM: 1912-2006
  By Kenny Irby, March 15, 2006
  
  
• Older stories
  
  Minnesota Public Radio (Feb. 11, 2005)
  http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/
  features/2005/02/11_olsond_parks/
  The Digital Journalist (Nov. 2004)
  http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0411/snead.html
  NPR (Dec. 8, 2002)
  http://npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=870441
  NPR (Nov. 30, 2002)
  http://npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1114762
  San Francisco Chronicle (July 1, 2001)
  http://www.sfgate.com
  LJWorld.com (June 13, 1999)
  http://www2.ljworld.com/news/1999/jun/13/a_look_at/
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Nov. 7, 1998)
  http://www.jsonline.com/letsgo/daily/1108parks.stm
  NPR (Sept. 17, 1997)
  http://npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1037873
  
  
• Additional Resources
  
  William Allen White Foundation National Citation
  (The University of Kansas, Feb. 10, 2006)
  Legends Online: Gordon Parks (PDN and Kodak)
  http://pdngallery.com/legends/parks/intro_set.shtml
  Historical Photos  (Library of Congress / National Archives)
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap07.html
  Gordon Parks Papers Guide (Library of Congress) (PDF file)
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/
  eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2003/ms003050.pdf
  Gordon Parks Center
  http://www.gordonparkscenter.org/
  The Gordon Parks Collection (Pittsburg State University)
  http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxparks.html
  Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks
  Gale Resources
  http://www.galegroup.com/
  free_resources/bhm/bio/parks_g.htm
  Kansas State Historical Society
  http://www.kshs.org/portraits/parks_gordon.htm
  The Library of America's Reporting Civil Rights
  http://reportingcivilrights.org/authors/bio.jsp?authorId=141
  Literature & Life: The Givens Collection
  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/litandlife/chapters/chapter5main.html
  Oral History Interview (Smithsonian, December 30, 1964)
  http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/
  oralhistories/transcripts/parks64.htm
  Gordon Parks Elementary School
  http://www.gordonparks.org/
  Internet Movie Database
  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662953/bio
  New York Times Movie Resource Page
  http://movies2.nytimes.com/
  gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=181971
  2001 Oakland Museum Exhibit 
  http://www.museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_gordon_parks.html
  1999 Norton Museum of Art Exhibit 
  http://www.norton.org/exhibitions/archiveparks.htm
  New York State Writers Institute - Classic Film Series 
  (The Films & Photography of Gordon Parks, 1999)  
  
  Goggle News Search: "Gordon Parks"
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