Gordon Parks, the man who caught the eye of Marva Louis, the elegant wife of the heavyweight boxing champion, Joe Louis, freelanced for Vogue magazine, shot portraits of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, and Barbra Streisand, directed the films The Learning Tree, and Shaft, and dated Gloria Vanderbilt reflects on his days making trouble at the YMCA with friends.
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