Half Past Autumn Part 3 and 4

1) What is your definition of successful?
 My definition of success is setting goals and achieving them.

2) What have you given up to become successful?
 In order to become successful I have given up friend time and sleep.

3) What did Parks give up to become successful?
Parks gave up marriage and a stable home, as his job often kept him on the move.

4)Who was Genevieve Young's father?
Young's father was UN .

5)How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)? Parks advance was $10,000.

6) How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam?

7) Why did Parks refuse the money?

8) What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree?
 The movie was significant because it made Parks Hollywood's first major black director.

9) What was significant about the character Shaft?
Shaft was significant because he was a black private detective.

10) What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?
Parks' choice of weapons was a book about his life.

11) What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce?

12) In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story?
The recent film with the same story is Twelve Years a Slave.

13) Who was Gordon Parks, jr?
Gordon Parks Jr. was the son of Sally Alvis and Gordon Parks, and was shooting a film when he died.

14) What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo?
My favorite photo is an untitled picture in his Segregation Story exhibition. The picture was taken in Shady Grove, Alabama in 1956, and shoes a mother carrying a child.

15) What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years?
In ten years I will remember the impact Parks made as a major black photographer.