Avon Kirkland’s close family friends Horace Durham (left) and Mattie Durham (right) that were like an aunt and uncle to Avon Kirkland and his sister. Horace Durham gave Avon Kirkland two beautiful suits when he went off to college.
Avon Kirkland’s siblings. (L to R) Avon Kirkland; his older brother, Donald Kirkland; and his twin sister, Yvonne Kirkland. Avon and Yvonne are around three years old. Donald was 20 months older than them.
Avon and family at their mother’s funeral in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (L to R) Angela Moody (his niece), Yvonne Kirkland Moody (twin sister), Avon Kirkland, Donald Kirkland.
Avon Kirkland performing in the Antiginy play in college. He got the part because the director knew he was from the Black Bottom neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida and could handle a knife (1954).
Avon Kirkland and colleagues from the Booker production. (L to R, seated) Leon Litwack, Nathan Huggins, Charles Johnson. (L to R, standing) Raymond Smock, Avon Kirkland, Louis Harlan (1982).
Avon Kirkland on the final day of shooting Simple Justice in Wilmington, North Carolina. (L to R) Avon Kirkland, his wife, Evelyn Kirkland, and the star of Simple Justice, Peter Francis James (1992).
Avon Kirkland (left) with his wife Evelyn Kirkland (middle) and newborn son Avery Kirkland (right) at the hospital in San Francisco. California (1987).
Avon Kirkland with Danny Glover in San Francisco, California. (L to R) Danny Glover, Donald Gregory (one of the subjects featured in the documentary, Street Soldiers), Avon Kirkland, Avery Kirkland, and Avery’s friend, Dennis De Jean (1996).
Avon Kirkland (middle) at a reception in honor of Street Soldiers with his sister, Yvonne Kirkland Moody (left), and his niece, Angela Moody (right) (1996).
Avon Kirkland at U.S. Congress Building. (L to R) Ron Dellums, Avon Kirkland, Nancy Pulosi, Joseph Marshall (co-founder of the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco), Maxine Waters.
Avon Kirkland (far left) and members of the The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (1959).
Avon Kirkland’s family friends Clarence Felder (far right) and his family. He is the only surviving relative of the Felder family, whom Avon Kirkland and his twin sister used to stay with when their mother went to work.
Avon Kirkland in Italy with three other members of the experiment on international living. (L to R) unknown man, Merritt Blake, Avon Kirkland, John Mendel (1957).
Avon Kirkland at a script conference at KQED in San Francisco, California with hollywood directors Stan Lathan (second from right) and actor Peter Coyote (far right).
