life: Years before he became LIFE’s first African-American staff photographer, the young and talented Gordon Parks an afternoon with Gordon Parks ©frank jackson 1997 © Light and LettersView full size

life:

Years before he became LIFE’s first African-American staff photographer, the young and talented Gordon Parks

an afternoon with Gordon Parks ©frank jackson 1997

an afternoon with Gordon Parks ©frank jackson 1997 © Light and Letters
vintageblackglamour: Lena Horne and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a party Ms. Horne gave in Dr. King’s honor in New York in 1963. Photo by Steve Schapiro. GORGEOUS, CLASS, INTELLIGENCE, LENA & MARTIN…View full size

vintageblackglamour:

Lena Horne and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a party Ms. Horne gave in Dr. King’s honor in New York in 1963. Photo by Steve Schapiro.

GORGEOUS, CLASS, INTELLIGENCE, LENA & MARTIN…