For Stinson, meeting him, making that connection between their worlds, was especially important. He's very inspirational. He was nice. He even gave me a kiss on the cheek. Being like him would be a tall, but overwhelmingly spectacular order.
Parks is a world-renowned photographer, writer and filmmaker.
Kan. His mother died when he was 15 and he spent the next decade essentially homeless, drifting from job to job, town to town. In 1938 he was overwhelmed by newsreel footage of the attack on an American gunboat. It changed his life forever. He would go on to become Life magazine's first African-American photographer, and his powerful images brought to real life the underbelly of poverty and racism as well as the glitter and glamour of the rich and beautiful. Students were given a choice to see the rest of the film on their own, a chance Stinson did no want to pass up.