Striking segregation photos from 1950s America

Striking segregation photos from 1950s America

An exhibition of Gordon Parks’ rare color photographs, entitled ‘Gordon Parks: Segregation Story’, will go on view this Autumn at The High Museum of Art in Atlanta. The photos capture a particularly disturbing moment in American history, captured via the lives of an African American family, the Thorntons, living under Jim Crow segregation in 1950s Alabama. The images, originally titled ‘The Restraints: Open and Hidden’, were first taken for a