![]() ![]() spoke with supporters in a Los Angeles living room went door to door in Alabama registering Black citizens to vote and officiated at his sister’s wedding in the Bronx. ![]() building in New York, with Martin Luther King, Jr. On the road with Carmichael and the SNCC that fall and into the spring of 1967, Parks took more than 700 photographs as Carmichael addressed Vietnam War protesters outside the U.N. HOUSTON-MAY 19, 2022-Fifty-five years ago today, Life magazine published photographer Gordon Parks’s groundbreaking images and profile of Stokely Carmichael, the young and controversial civil-rights leader who, as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, issued the call for Black Power in a speech in Mississippi in June 1966, eliciting national headlines, and media backlash. Organized with the Gordon Parks Foundation, the show presents dozens more photographs from Parks’s series that have never before been published or exhibited The MFAH exhibition centers on Gordon Parks’s five iconic images of controversial young activist Stokely Carmichael, published in Life magazine in May 1967 ![]()
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