Drinking Fountains, Birmingham, Alabama, 1956 by Gordon Parks
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday, a photograph by Gordon Parks (1912 – 2006), who was the only black photographer working at Vogue in the 1940s, and the first black staff photographer at Life magazine, where he began in 1948 and worked for 20 years. You might know him as the director of “Shaft” or Gloria Vanderbilt’s boyfriend.