Blog 6

I think the most powerful thing I read in Jay David's book was the piece by Gordon Parks. His account on the everyday happenings he had to deal with and the sense of almost accepting these things as part of everyday life really stuck with me. This isn't to say section's like Booker T. Washington's weren't powerful, rather, this everyday account from a normal guy more out of the limelight seemed to hit more at home. These auto-biographical accounts are so gripping because they are written first hand. These aren't stories written by someone doing research, they are actually stories written by people who saw all this happen and had all these things happen to them. Gordon really put up with a lot psychologically and physically and it's truly amazing to read accounts by people such as him.