The Gordon Parks Museum was awarded Kansas Tourism Attraction Grant in the amount of $9,229 grant for the Wayman Chapel AME Church Commemorative Park Project
Gordon Parks Museum Receives Kansas Tourism Attraction Grant
Gordon Parks Museum receives portrait taken by Parks’ son
Marcia McCoy, photographer and longtime friend of Gordon Parks, has donated an iconic portrait of the celebrated Fort Scott native taken by his son, David, to the museum that bears his name.
Fort Scott native Gordon Parks was among a dozen photographers inducted by the Kansas Press Association into the Kansas Photojournalism Hall of Fame during a ceremony recently in Topeka.