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65 years later, Gordon Parks photos hit home in Mobile
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Posted Feb 02, 2021
A sign that once marked the Colored Entrance to the Mobile Saenger Theatre sits amid a display of Gordon Parks photographs at the Mobile Museum of Art. The sign figures prominently in one of the images from 1956.Lawrence Specker | LSpecker@AL.com
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The worn wood of a rural classroom. The lush greens of a row crop and trees surrounding a quartet of people walking through a field. The fringe of twilight gloom around a walk-up ice-cream stand. The play of brightness and dark amid the clouds as sunlight blazes off a tin roof. The skin tones.