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.

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). Furthermore, not only did the photographic coverage exhibit the level of the struggle but as well made the visible change of the massive resistance. com/4429096/black-lives-matter-civil-rights-photography/ However, as noted by Trodd (2012), very few people today acknowledges the efforts made by Dr. 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. On the other hand, the quantitative research method will be primarily based on the measurement of quantity or amount. This type of research design uses the statistical data for basing its assumptions and findings (Daley, Martin & Roessger, 2017, 158). Incorporating the quantitative and qualitative designs together results in a mixed approach. 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.

Also, the thematic analysis will as well be used in evaluating the collected secondary data also for establishing relationships and themes within the collected data. Also, a template for data analysis will be created for the purpose of capturing the important issues as well as themes that emerged from the used secondary method publications applied in by the research Daley, Martin & Roessger, 2017, 158). Finally, the data will be made in such a way that it could make a more meaningful contribution of fulfilling the research objectives, and this will be done by making a general summary of every secondary data of the research. Bergh, D. D. Ketchen, D. J.  Research Methodology in Strategy and Management. G. Roessger, K. M. A Call for Methodological Plurality: Reconsidering Research Approaches in Adult Education.  Adult Education Quarterly, 68(2), 157-169.

doi:10. Trodd, Z. A Negative Utopia: Protest Memory and the Spatio-Symbolism of Civil Rights Literature and Photography.  African American Review, 42(1), 25-40. Ward, B.