Gordon Parks High School now has a special “learning tree” at the St. Paul Public School after the film by the same name. The movie “The Learning Tree” was written and directed by Gordon Parks, a ...

This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container. Based on the novel by Gordon Parks.

NEW YORK — Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with The Learning Tree and ...

Parks also directed several films, including the iconic “Shaft” (1971), and authored books like the semi-autobiographical “The Learning Tree.” Throughout his career, he received numerous accolades, ...

Gordon Parks was the first Black photographer hired by Life magazine. He was a pioneering photojournalist, a film director (“Shaft,” “The Learning Tree”), a bestselling novelist and a composer. Parks ...