I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

He attended a segregated elementary school. Donloe Darlene. Y.

For the Scottish sports journalist and former footballer see Gordon Parks (footballer)
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30 1912 – March 7 2006) was an American photographer musician writer and film director.