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The learning tree movie.
Gordon Parks directing The Learning Tree.
Gordon Parks was a true Renaissance man. He rose from humble beginnings in rural Kansas, overcame intense racism, and went on to become an acclaimed photographer for Life Magazine in the very segregated 1940s.
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But he wasn't content mastering just one field of endeavor. He also became a successful filmmaker. His movie Shaft was a huge hit that was instrumental in launching the blaxploitation genre of the 1970s. It is now considered a classic.
He directed just a handful of feature films yet two of them are in the National Film Registry (Shaft and this movie). Gordon Parks still hadn't exhausted his talents.
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He also wrote several memoirs (one of which The Learning Tree is based on), fictional novels, and books of poetry. He composed the score for this film as well as a ballet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in 1988. In his spare time he was a tireless champion for the Civil Rights Movement.
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