IMPORTANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS BETWEEN

Signature………………… REG. NO……………………. Date ……………. SUPERVISOR This research project has been submitted for examination with my approval as the course supervisor. SIGN………………………. Descriptive design was considered ideal since it was conducted in a small geographical scope and putting into consideration the various photos that the study evaluated to see their effect in fighting for civil rights. Descriptive design uses a preplanned design for analysis of the previous studies done on the same topic or closely related areas of interest. In that case, literature reviews about how photography helped in raising human dignity and fighting racial injustices were very key sources of information for this research. Having in mind that this research is seeking to investigate an historical topic, then it’s was very vital to use historical journals, articles, past researches and even history books.

Some of the areas where the study got some of these sources were museums, historical centers, research centers, libraries and government agencies. Photographs plastered across the front pages of newspapers, tweeted, posted and shared across social media platforms as well as in glossy news magazines significantly helped in raising the awareness of movements, serving as a shock to the households across the United States. To an extend this was simply a case of history repeating itself as in 1956 photography was also used to bring awareness to the brutality inflicted upon African American’s, especially within the southern states. All the image examples given here would prove to you that there is power in photographing to fight for civil right is bring back peoples dignity through images and photos.

This background forms the bases for this research and the need to conduct a study to establish how photography was used to fight for civil rights in between 1950s and 1960s with help of civil rights movements. This research seek to shed light on how the photographic images helped to pass messages/information to the Civil Rights and the Black Lives Matter movement and fight some social injustices like racism in the years 1950s and 1960s. Among the photos that helped in changing the Civil Rights Movement is that of Emmet Till who was attacked by three white men as his picture was used for showing the public how he really looks like. After visiting relatives in Mississippi and having an encounter with Carolyn Bryant.

Till was seized by Brayant’s husband, his half-brother who brutally shot, he was killed and his body was dumped in the Tallahatchie River (Beauchamp, 2015, 90). Her mother, Mamie insisted on an open casket that resulted in the publication of a scorching image showing Mamie sorrowfully staring at the ravaged murdered body of his son. As a result, this forced the world in reckoning the American racism brutality. The study will also identify appropriate images that I will use to support the argument provided throughout this research. All this will be supported and considered through the application of photographic theories such as Solomon-Godeau’s Inside/Outside theory, citizen photography, and the concept of photography as agony. 7 importance of study There are various ways in which the proposed study would be of importance.

It will help in promoting understanding on how photographs/pictures have help people in seeing the impact of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Besides, this study would act as a better means of understanding why some civil right movement activists including Martin Luther King Jr. 1 Introduction This chapter looks at the relevant theoretical and empirical literature which forms the ground for investigating the research problem stated in the previous chapter. Also in consideration in this chapter are past theoretical arguments from different activist and theorist as well as relevant studies within this topic. This chapter again compares how different images/photographs were interpreted in different scenarios by different people. Overview of Literature Review As introduced in this proposal before, park was one of the very vibrant photographers in the 1960s.

He exposed images of many Americans to the reality of segregation which catalyzed the civil rights movements to fight for black people. com/asset/56c216c91d00002700df5f6c. jpeg?ops=scalefit_970_noupscale Other photos that helped in fighting for civil rights with the help of changing the Civil Rights Movement is that of Emmet Till who was attacked by three white men as his picture was used for showing the public how he really looks like. After visiting relatives in Mississippi and having an encounter with Carolyn Bryant. Till was seized by Brayant’s husband, his half-brother who brutally shot, he was killed and his body was dumped in the Tallahatchie River (Beauchamp, 2015, 90). Her mother, Mamie insisted on an open casket that resulted in the publication of a scorching image showing Mamie sorrowfully staring at the ravaged murdered body of his son.

Although they did not achieve instant success, the Greensboro Four returned to the store within six months and were served at the counter the same way whites were being served. Importantly, the images of this story became the national news and as a result incited such like demonstrations all over the United States. 3 Below the water: black lives matter and revolutionary times by Nicholas Mirzoeff Nicholas was one of the most influential activist and revolutionist of the time-work relation created by industrial capitalism as the structure of human life was ending. When Detroit automakers disposed of human labor in favor of what was then called cybernetics, Grace and Jimmy understood that the time-work relation created by industrial capitalism as a structure for human life was ending.

The violent suppression of the 1967 Detroit Uprising led them to update the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution as their model for change. There was believe that many black lives have been and are considered disposable, surplus or without value but the movement came to speak for each life and show people that each life matters. It’s during this time that Nicholas and other revolutionist joined hands with the movement and started the campaign for creating the so called revolutionary time. That time, which was called ‘deep time’ was the time of revolutionizing the lives of slaves and other oppressed to a better life regardless of their races and ethnicity. Several images were used to show peoples power and sovereignty and the unity of people from different ethnic backgrounds.

In 1967 a time that will keep recurring in this piece. In their theory, they have captured different times through photos and used them to bring out different messages and reach so many people. Therefore, these messages exist in nonlinear time, containing elements of different temporalities. By this, they meant that screen based images always blend time, legible in different ways to different people. While a film begins and ends, and a photographs exposed in a specific moment, the resulting images do work in and as (a) people’s memories. 3 The appearance of black lives matter by Nicholas Mirzoeff In the recent post-colonial times, the work of Nicholas Mirzoeff, has been interpreted to mean a lot in the current society. What is to appear? It is first to claim the right to exist, to own one’s body, as campaigns from antislavery to reproductive 2.

How different images were used to convey different messages to the public and their comparison CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY 3. 1 Introduction This chapter describes the research design and presents the empirical model that will be adopted for the study. The variables that will be used in the study are defined. The data and the data sources and the methods used in data analysis are explained. Secondary data is the one that has been already collected, analyzed and presented by interested parties or other researchers (Mukhopadhyay & Gupta, 2014, 110) and has been preserved for future references. This research will prefer using the secondary data sources over the primary data sources since they have the capability of filling the existent literature gaps or addressing certain goals and objectives of the research.