A Harlem Family

A Harlem Family

Authors

Gordon Parks

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Gordon Parks documented as part of a 1968 Life magazine photo essay. A searing portrait of poverty in the United States, the Fontenelle photographs provide a view of Harlem through the narrative of a specific family at a particular moment in time. -- Taken from The Gordon Parks Foundation

Publication Date

1968

Publisher

Time, Inc.

Keywords

African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions, African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions, Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions, Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions, West Side (Chicago, Ill.) -- Social conditions

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Originally published in Life, Volume 64, Number 10. Alternate Titles: The Cycle of Despair; Negro and the Cities; Cry That Will be Heard

A Harlem Family

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