Parks, Gordon

VOICES IN THE MIRROR: An Autobiography

      Doubleday, New York 1990 - 351pp: Avery nice copy of Parks' autobiography, SIGNED BY PARKS in a personal dedication (to "John" dated Sept 6, '97, New York). Includes 36 b/w photographs spanning Parks’s entire remarkable career-including portraits, works from magazine articles, and much more, this autobiography describes his childhood, his first camera, working as a documentary photographer with the Farm Security Administration (FSA) under Roy Stryker, working fo Vogue and Life Magazines, writing, segregation, racial discrimination, Civil Rights, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., his films-The Learning Tree and Shaft and Leadbelly, his musical compositions, plus much, much more. Includes a detailed index. Bound in brown woven cloth over black boards with gilt lettering to spine. In original pictorial dustjacket which retains the original publisher’s price of $22.95. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]