PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE 1956 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

However, photographs helped in defining these movements by playing a crucial role to advance the struggle for equality and justice. The influential pictures on the newspapers’ front pages as well as in glossy news magazines significantly helped in raising the awareness of this movement, while others came as a shock to the nation. Therefore, based on this, this research proposal will shed light on how the study would be conducted by incorporating critical literature review and the methodology to be utilized during the research to understand how photography raised the profile of the 1956 civil right movement. Rationale There are various ways in which the proposed study would be of great importance. It would help in understanding how photographs/pictures have assisted people in seeing the impact of the Black Lives Matter Movement.

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 and his half brother who brutally shot and killed him, and dumped his body 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.

http://www. c3teachers. org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NewYork_11_Civil_Rights. pdf Besides, photography including the Charles Moore’s and Bill Hudson’s 1963 Birmingham’s news photographs captured how largely nonviolent protesters were brutally treated by law enforcement officers as they used high-pressure fire horses as well as police dogs. As a result, the organizers of civil rights movement understood that these eye-capturing photos could help in building sympathy for the cause, attracting financial support, and pushing politicians in offering protection, and ultimately enacting landmark registration (Monteith, 2015, 442). Research Design Bergh and Ketchen (2013) posit that there are three main types of research methodologies and designs that are often used in research. They include quantitative, qualitative as well as pragmatic or mixed approaches. Qualitative research is a form of inquiry technique that would be used in this research.

This technique will be particularly used to assist the researchers in establishing a comprehensive understanding concerning how photography helped in raising the profile of the 1956 civil right movement. Qualitative research will be comprised of several characteristics, but the major characteristics will be its capability in using the non-numerical or a descriptive data. However, the secondary approach would face certain weaknesses related to the secondary research and is characterized by the capability of limiting the way research questions are addressed. For example, there might be questions arising concerning the quality of the extracted data from other sources especially if these sources are not retrieved from certified or credible sources. Furthermore, the research topic to be studied might have a limited data on the research topic (Daley, Martin & Roessger, 2017, 159).

Therefore, it is important that the researcher should have enough time for selecting the best secondary sources of data, which will ensure a credible data. By addressing this research topic, this research will majorly rely upon books, historic reports as well as peer-reviewed journal Data Analysis As mentioned earlier, the collected data used in this research will entirely be qualitative, and, therefore, will be the best analysis techniques to be used in analyzing the collected data. A. The Murder of Emmett Louis Till: The Spark That Started the Civil Rights Movement.  Black Collegian, 35(2), 88-91. Bergh, D. D. Daley, B. J. , Martin, L. G. , & Roessger, K. K. Survey of Qualitative Research Methodology in Strategy Research and Implication for Indian Researchers.  Vision (09722629), 18(2), 109-123.