Civil Rights Project:
Using photojournalism, create a collage that represents the goals of the civil rights movement as you see them.
1: Go to the following website and read the article there:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20050829monday.html
In a groups of two students will search the following sites for pictures of the civil rights movement :
-Picture History (http://www.picturehistory.com/find/start/24?c=160;start=12)
-Kodak: Powerful Days in Black and White (http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml)
-New York Public Library Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture (http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html)
-PBS: "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.html)
POSTER DESIGN:
-Print the photograph and paste it to poster board (as provided by the teacher). The poster needs to capture the essence of the Civil Rights movment. Leaders of the movment need to be included; but don’t forget the ordinary people who risked their lives for their civil rights.
-Write a concise paragraph on the poster that summarizes the answers to the research questions, focusing on the photograph's import and influence
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RESEARCH: Answer the following questions:
- -What story do your photos tell of the civil rights movement? Is it the whole story? If not, what is missing?
-How do the photographs tell stories? How do they convey information, emotions, etc. that stories cannot?
-Is a story told with images more powerful than one with words? Why or why not? If so, when?
-Is memorable photojournalism often of violent events or acts? If so, why do you think this is so? Do violent and non-violent photographs have distinctly different effects? Why or why not? If so, how do the effects differ?
What goals of the civil rights movement have been achieved? What goals still have yet to be achieved?
Choose one of your photos that you particularly liked: Reflect on the power of photojournalism and on your photo in particular. To whom would your photo be most valuable? And why?