IMPORTANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

The image had a simple message that black lives matter and it was unforgettable. This is a clear evidence that photographic tool carries with it a huge potential to spread awareness, reform, revolution and also keep history for future generation. It’s evident that since 1950s, photography has been a very critical tool in fighting for civil rights and revolution. One of the revolutionist and a culture activist, Gordon Parks made camera his weapon to change America. Gordon is believed to have used its camera to impact people and bring change to the community in matters concerning racism and poverty. 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. How photography facilitated the development of empathy amongst people who had no experience or connection to the injustices that was being administered and how it also served to unify and compel apolitical citizens towards activism. Rationale This research is meant to educate people out there that there is power in photography and can be used to heal our society. Many photographers in the 1950s and 1960s have reached their dreams through photographing to impact the world. com/asset/56c216c81d00002700df5f6b.

jpeg?ops=scalefit_970_noupscale Later, Park also launched another fight against racial injustice crusading for the separation of black and white America. They used images to communicate the progress of their insular society flourishing around him. He called it, collecting evidence and could display images to show the fate of black people. Some of the photos that Park used included. Till’s mother was highly appraised for being determined in exposing the cruelty of this crime, and the public could no longer assume or pretend in ignoring the images of this racism. http://www. c3teachers. org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NewYork_11_Civil_Rights. pdf Similarly, the historical images of four students including Franklin McCain, David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Ezell Blair can also best explain how photography helped to raise the profile of the civil right movement of 1956.

Descriptive design is ideal as the study will be carried out in a limited geographical scope and putting into consideration the various photos that the study will evaluate 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 will be very key sources of information for this research. Data sources As mentioned earlier, this research will use mostly secondary data from various sources. 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.

Again, the exercise will be expensive and time consuming considering the procedures and the follow up needed to gather a complete story regarding a particular photo in that case. Nevertheless, we hope that technology will help us sail through some of these challenges. The reason behind this is that the internet can be used to access the databases or libraries remotely to easily obtain the secondary data concerning how photography helped to fight for civil rights in 1956s and 1960s with the help of black lives matter movement. Research schedule Activity Period Writing the proposal Week 1-2 Getting the Literature Review Week 3 Getting the Methodology tools Week 4-5 Seeking permission from authorities Week 6 Data collection Week 7-9 Data presentation, analysis, and interpretation of the initial draft Week 10 Discussion Week 11 Addressing recommendations Week 12-13 Final report preparation and presentation Week 14 Bibliography Harrold, S.