Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thats the job for a historian. Most historians, if they think about photographs at all, focus on them as images not material objects and as illustrations rather than as primary sources that can and should themselves be the subject of historical analysis. Watch ken burns 1996 series on the west and Pay Attention to his treatment of the pueblo revolt of 1680. While he uses engravings of spaniards it to visual issize the story he relies on 19th and 20th century sorry gave away my story there, trying to highlight this picture here, he relies on 19th and 20th century photographs to depict the pueblo protagonists. This approach conveys an insidious image. European people change with time. One would never use images from two centuries later to depict them, but native peoples live on in an unchanging past, a photograph made 240 years later is just fine. We are susceptible to this historical use of photographs when we do not know better. I
Archival footage are included in the Award Winning film from 2003, which documents the nonviolent protest that quickly lead to similar citizens throughout the south and helped energize the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s. We have the right to protest. This is a nonviolent movement. Resistance. From the busboy cart in montgomery, alabama 1960, virtually Nothing Happened in the arena of civil rights. It was dead. Absolutely dead. Even martha luke earth do even Martha Luther king said that. In 1960, things to change dramatically, in greensboro. It is the origin of all of those events that occurred subsequent to february 1st, 1960. I happened to be there. Mcneill happen to be there. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away and its coming closer. You become increasingly aware of the tracks of the trains. That track is what divides white from black. That is what separates the white ghetto from the black ghetto. It is the track that heads somewhere, but you dont know ex
From the bus boycott in monger, alabama until february 1, 1960, virtually Nothing Happened in the arena of civil rights. It was dead, absolutely dead, even Martin Luther king said that. In 1960 things did change dramatically in greensboro. Greensboro is the origin of all the events that occur subsequent to february 1, 1960. I happened to be there. Mcneil happened to be there. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away and it is coming closer and you become increasingly aware of the track the train is rolling on. That track is what divides white from black. Thats what separates the white ghetto from the black ghetto. Its the track that heads somewhere but you do not know exactly where. And it is not really for the good of society. And before sitins, walked right across the track in the wrong direction, went to the other side. I think greensboro liked to think of itself as polite and being polite and moderate and open to different points of view. Greensboro is a town tha
Virtually Nothing Happened until 1960 in civil rights. It was bad, absolutely bad. Even Martin Luther king said that. In 1960, things changed dramatically. Xi happen to be there. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away, you become increasingly aware of the truck the train is rolling on. The track is what divides from black, it separates the white get from the black ghetto. Youre heading somewhere you dont really know where. Its not really for the good of society. And we block across the track in the wrong direction. Went to the other side. I think that greensboro liked to think of itself as being polite, moderate, open to different points of view. Greensboro is a town that doesnt like a lot of controversy. Greensboro was somewhat typical. Greensboro was like every other city in the south. We were focused on our day today, and our carefree atmosphere where life was pretty straightforward. Greensboro north carolina, was brent on the second world war. Before i was two
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