Gordon Parks/Community-Inspired » gordon parks photo

As part of Westport Academy’s “People of the Word Showcase,” eighth-grade students photographed classmates at the Boys and Girls Club in the same spirit of Gordon Parks’ iconic photograph, “American Gothic,” of Ella Watson. Carole Boston Weatherford’s book, “Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America” was one of the 10 books chosen by school community to build arts activities around.