White Police Officer Standing between Two Black Protestors
(Primary Title)
Gordon Parks, American, 1912 – 2006 (Artist)
Signed in black ink on print verso: "Gordon Parks".
Life magazine stamp in blue ink (in chart format) on print verso: "Life Photo by/ Gordon Parks/ Property of Life Magazine/ Reproduction Forbidden without Express Consent/ Take No./ [scratched out number]/ "1" [inscribed in black ink]/ Date/ 3-1-63/ Set No./ [scratched out number]/ Story & Location/ Black Muslims".
Life Picture stamp in red ink on print verso: "Life Picture Collection".
Inscribed in graphite on print verso: "874 [underlined]/ c-1-19".
Inscribed in graphite on print verso: "Religions-Moslem Supremacist" [underlined]/ (Black Muslim demonstrations, probably in NYC)/ "Police-US-NY-NYC" [underlined]/ "Signs" [underlined]".
Inscribed in blue graphite on print verso: "#66874" [encircled] - c".
Inscribed in graphite on print verso: "GP03835"/ "Muslims 6.008".
Aldine S. Hartman Endowment Fund
Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, January 11 - September 7, 2014
© Gordon Parks Foundation
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