Monday, June 20 – Sunday June, 26

Home To Harlem: Diary of a Harlem Family

Diary of A Harlem Family streams FREE in our Virtual Cinema as Part of Made In Harlem: Home to Harlem curated by Ina Archer

Co-presented with the Documentary Forum at City College and Third World Newsreel

Diary of a Harlem Family

Gordon Parks, 1968, 63 min. Digital.

Diary of a Harlem Family reveals the all-too-common plight of one family living in New York City's black Harlem through the photographs of Gordon Parks. Includes the problems of inadequate educational background, restricted job opportunities, a lack of food and adequate heating, the drinking of the father and the despair of the mother, and the hostility and violence that results. Points out the importance of poverty agencies or other help, and leaves the family's difficulties unsolved.

Digital restoration courtesy of Indiana University Instructional Moving Image Archives and WNET/13.

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