Oral history interview with Gordon Parks

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.

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Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006

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A versatile and prolific artist, Gordon Parks, Sr., warrants his status as a cultural icon. The poet, novelist, film director, and preeminent documentary and fashion photographer was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas, the youngest of fifteen children. Parks saw no reason to stay in Kansas after the death of his mother and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, at age sixteen to live with his sister. After a disagreement with his brother-in-law, Parks soon found himself homeless, supporting...

United States. Farm Security Administration

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The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established within the United States Department of Agriculture to implement the provisions of the Bankhead-Jones Tenant Act of 1937. The agency also took over certain functions of its predecessor, the Resettlement Administration (RA). The FSA made available and administered long-term loans to tenants and sharecroppers, loaned funds to rural cooperatives, and operated camps for migrant farm workers. The FSA was abolished in 1946; the Farmers Home Adminis...

Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975

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Director of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section; Washington, D.C. Under Stryker the Photographic project of the FSA documented the drought, poverty and despair of rural and urban America during the Depression. From the description of Oral history interview with Roy Emerson Stryker, 1963-1965 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79221042 Director of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section; Washingt...

Doud, Richard Keith

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Art historian; Washington, D.C. From the description of Richard Keith Doud papers, 1963-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557238 ...