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. 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. 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. 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. Besides, for more than a century, most of the African-Americans died as a result of being lynched with impunity and brutality. 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. Faced with the beginnings of deindustrialization in Detroit, Jimmy Boggs declared that a job another answer to systemic crisis, meaning a forty-hour work week contract. In her later thinking, Grace Lee Boggs took the situation in Detroit asan opportunity to shape the future: we had been granted an opportunity to begin a new chapter in the evolution of the human race, a chapter that global warming and corporate globalization had made increasingly necessary.

In its dying, Detroit could also be the birthplace for a new kind ofcity. 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. Michel Foucault declared that the present epoch will be perhaps above all the epoch of space. Here he was mixing temporal and spatial vocabularies. For his interest in space was a challenge not to time but to the teleology of Western concepts of History, whether that of the Great Man, the triumph of capital, or the revolution. 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. 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.

Especially ‘The Appearance of Black Lives Matter’ and his other work on vision and control, as well as exploring Foucault’s ideas of biopower. Police killings captured on cell-phone videos or graphs have been used as hallmark of United States visual culture in the twenty first century. The activist and revolutionist are using them to maintain the law and order that inflicts systemic violence on black people. 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. Research Design Research methodology is system of explicit activities and procedures upon which this research is based and against which claims for knowledge are evaluated. It entails the location variables, population, sampling techniques, data collection, procedures and data analysis.

Research design is the overall plan of conducting the study in order to answer the research questions and achieve the objectives of the study under investigation. Some of the areas where the study will get some of these sources will be museums, historical centers, research centers, libraries and government agencies. Literature review will make bases for everything in this study. it will an important aspect to first look at what the literatures say about the topic then build our information from there. The study will use as wide literature information as possible. data analysis The collected data used in this research is entirely qualitative, and, therefore, will be the best analysis techniques to be used in analyzing the collected data. Beauchamp, K. A. The Murder of Emmett Louis Till: The Spark That Started the Civil Rights Movement.

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