"I think that the film being made there did an awful lot to dispel that. For the first time there – well, for the first time in the United States – there was a black man riding in that big crane, and he was the boss of a mostly white crew, about 200 people. They looked at this at first in utter amazement and eventually they were proud of me, because I was a local boy. It was very prideful for the Negro kids."
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On filming “The Learning Tree” in his neighborhood in “Gordon Parks, pioneering black film director – archive” in The Guardian (2016 Sep 22)
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Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director.
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