Half Past Autumn-Gordon Parks Part 3 + Part 4

1. What is your definition of successful?
   My definition of success is being able to find compromise in your life and accepting your wins and losses.
2. What have you given up to become successful?
   I've given up hours of time practicing baseball and studying to make myself a better baseball player and a more accomplished student.
3. What did Parks give up to become successful?
   Parks gave up much of his personal time with his family in order to be successful. He was away from his family for long periods of time while he was on assignment.
4. Who was Genevieve Young's father?
   Her father was one of the founding members of the UN and VK Wellington Kok.
5. How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)?
   He was advanced $10,000 for his first book.
6. How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam?
   Muhammad offered Parks $500,000 to do a story on the Nation of Islam.
7. Why did Parks refuse the money?
   He refused the money because he didn't like the Nation of Islam's tendency towards violent protests; he preferred to use his camera rather than a gun.
8. What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree?
   The Learning Tree was the first Hollywood feature film written and directed by an African American.
9. What was significant about the character Shaft?
   The character Shaft represented the spirit of the African Americans in the U.S. and inspired many African Americans to not be inhibited by racism.
10. What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?
    Gordon Parks' choice of weapons was the 35 mm camera and pen.
11. What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce?
    She said the marriage was like a washing machine, where she didn't know what would come up next. The turmoil in his life wore her out, and it set her own career back.
12. In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story?
    Solomon Northrup's Odyssey tells the same story as 12 Years a Slave, which was released in 2013.
13. Who was Gordon Parks, jr?
    Gordon Parks's eldest son was a screenwriter in Hollywood who wrote Super Fly, a successful blaxploitation film about drug dealers in Harlem. He died in a plane crash at the age of forty-four.
14. What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo?
    My favorite Parks photo is this one about segregation in the South.
15. What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years?
    In ten years, I will remember Gordon Parks as a pioneer in the photography field (the Jackie Robinson of photography) and for being a social activist who focused his lens on the racial discrimination in the U.S.