Gordon Parks Reads The Learning Tree (1970)

Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks has written a moving, true-to-life novel of growing up as a black man in this country in this century. Hailed by critics and readers alike, THE LEARNING TREE tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leave their mark a world that is better for their having been in it.

A1 The Learning Tree
A2 Peach Raid
A3 Uncle Rob
A4 Christmas At Spits
A5 Marcus Come Home
B1 Marcus Takes Rob
B2 Two Lessons
B3 Miss McClincoch
B4 Murder
C1 Sunday Dinner
C2 A Family Secret
C3 The Trial
D1 Booker Is Buried
D2 Sarah Dies
D3 The Last Fight

(1970)