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Gordon A. Parks Sr. Famous memorial

Birth: 30 Nov 1912
Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, USA
Death: 7 Mar 2006 (aged 93)
New York, New York County, New York, USA
Burial: Evergreen Cemetery

Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 37.797106, Longitude: -94.7167724
Plot: Lot 23 Sec 7
Memorial ID: 13558429 View Source

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Originally Created by: Fred Beisser
Added: Mar 7, 2006
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13558429/gordon_a-parks: accessed ), memorial page for Gordon A. Parks Sr. (30 Nov 1912–7 Mar 2006), Find a Grave Memorial ID 13558429, citing Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.

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Added by: Fred Beisser on 07 Mar 2006

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The Parks marker as of 2022 with Gordon, Gordon Jr, Toni, and Sally.

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Original Works by Gordon Parks, found on the back of the stone.

Homecoming
This small town into which I was born, has, for me, grown into the largest, and most important city in the universe.
Fort Scott is not as tall, or heralded as New York, Paris or London or other places my feet have roamed, but it is home.
Surely, I remember the harsh days, the sordid bigotry and segregated schools- and indeed the graveyard for Black people, (where my beloved mother and father still rest beneath Kansas earth).
But recently, the bitterness, that hung around for so many years seems to have asked for silence, for escape from the weariness of those ugly days past.
Thankfully, hatred is suddenly remaining quiet, keeping its mouth shut! And I am thankful for the contentment we lost along the way.
My hope now is that each of us can find what GOD put us here to find- LOVE! Let us have no more truck with the devil!

Gordon Parks UN Plaza, New York, NY. October 2, 2001

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This is one of his writings included on the stone.
A Sign By the Road
It stands at the edge of a Prairie town telling anyone, who cares, that I was born there.
Perhaps the space left will say "Now he's buried there"
Today a will-maker stopped by to tell me that time was weary and growing shorter and shorter;
that nights for laughter and dancing are almost over.
Perhaps a year or more is patiently waiting.
Beyond that winding road, Momma, Papa and sister lay, assigned to graves that accommodate their Blackness. Night arrived loaded with buckets of tainted memories that had besieged my childhood with despair.
No escape!
Troublesome reminders
slammed me into a past where
White doors frowned at me
and White Schools shunned my presence,
fortunately some mighty fine things happened along the way for me, and that prairie town.
Ups and downs have a way of contradicting the future. That sign, standing proudly on the road to Fort Scott, appears to be invisible to both malice and hatred. Crowned with mystery, racism seems to be wrinkling into solitude.
My doctor stretches my remaining years to 10!
My bones hope he is right.
But doctors, and will-makers can be wrong.
I came into this world pronounced dead. Thankfully, God condemned that declaration. I survived.
The end predicted for me, fell into a hole and died. So now I don't sit around waiting, day by day—for death to call my name again.
Gordon Parks – m
March 2005

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