1.What is your definition of successful?
Getting good grades
2.What have you given up to become successful?
Nothing
3.What did Parks give up to become successful?
his safety, stable life
4.Who was Genevieve Young's father?
He was a rich business man.
5.How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)?
He advanced to $10,000 for the first 7 pages.
6.How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam?
$50,000
7.Why did Parks refuse the money?
He didn't believe in the religion and felt like it was wrong.
8.What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree?
It was his first movie
9.What was significant about the character Shaft?
he was a black superhero
10.What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?
Photography and nonviolence
11.What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce?
She couldn't keep the turmoil and uncertainty of day to day life under control.
12.In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story?
12 Years A Slave
13.Who was Gordon Parks, jr?
Gordon Parks son, filmmaker, died in a plane crash
14.What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo?
American Gothic
15.What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years?
nothing
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