CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/15/2017

Gordon Parks: Segregation in the South

"Untitled," Shady Grove, Alabama (1956), is reproduced from Gordon Parks: I Am You. Shot on assignment for the 1956 Life magazine story "Segregation in the South," it is both a heartbreaking and supremely dignified image of Southern life under Jim Crow. Less than a decade later, Parks would document Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s history-making March on Washington, which we celebrate this weekend with all our hearts.

Photograph by Gordon Parks, courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.