Back to Fort Scott Additional Draft Pages

Additional annotated draft pages from Gordon Parks' unpublished Life Magazine article, Back to Fort Scott. These pages include six annotated typed pages and six annotated handwritten pages which are, in both form and content, earlier drafts of the unpublished article Parks wrote. The six typewritten pages focus on three of his African American classmates, and the six handwritten pages focus on a fourth classmate. After a 23-year absence, Parks returned to his childhood home of Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1950 to write about his memories, both good and bad, for Life in an article titled, Back to Fort Scott. To research the piece, he tracked down his eleven African American classmates from the racially segregated Plaza School they attended together from first to ninth grades before going on to the integrated high school. Parks' article was never published, as it was bumped by Life to make space for a piece about the firing of General MacArthur by President Truman on April 11, 1951

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