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This article is focused on Parks filming his first movie, “The Learning Tree,” which is based on the book he wrote of the same name. It is set in Fort Scott, Kansas, where Parks was raised, and is a homecoming of sorts for the photographer.

This photographic essay chronicles the life of the Fontanelles, a Black family living in poverty in New York City. Parks’ essay was part of a special section for this issue titled “The Cycle of Despair: The Negro and the City.”

Images from Gordon Parks's essays "Harlem Gang Leader," November 1, 1948, and "Redemption of the Champion," September 9, 1966.