Civil Right Protest By Patrick Benavides Anthology

Powerful Image

Analyzation Of Photo The reason I choose this image for my project is that it support and strengthen any activist decision to rebel against society. This photo depicts a group of freedom riders being ripped apart by a fire hose. Fire hoses has so much power that it can really do a lot of damage to the average person flesh. This happened in Birmingham because of a civil protest. Like this image their thousands of captured photos of police brutality. Police brutality and basically all violence was a very big issue. In the next slid your going to see what people lives where like and what they had to wake up reading about on their newspaper. This sort of leads into one of Langston Hughes powerful poems “Birmingham Sunday”.

Langston Hughes Poem “ Birmingham Sunday” (September 15, 1963) “Four little girls Who went to Sunday School that day And never came back home at all--      But left instead      Their blood upon the wall      With spattered flesh      And bloodied Sunday dresses      Scorched by dynamite that      China made aeons ago      Did not know what China made      Before China was ever Red at all      Would ever redden with their blood      This Birmingham-on-Sunday wall. Four tiny little girls Who left their blood upon that wall, In little graves today await:      The dynamite that might ignite      The ancient fuse of Dragon Kings      Whose tomorrow sings a hymn      The missionaries never taught      In Christian Sunday School      To implement the Golden Rule. Four little girls Might be awakened someday soon By songs upon the breeze      As yet unfelt among      Magnolia trees.” ( Hughes pg. 557) Source of Image http://static.communitytable.parade.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Bomb_blast_kills_4_chidren_injures_17_at_church-ftr.jpg

Analyzation Of poem This poem was absolutely powerful it really grabs the readers attention from the very first line to the end. I heard of the bombing that occurred at Birmingham church. It was caused by the KKK and killed four children. Hughes gives a vivid and a little to strong of an imagery with his poetry. Okay for instance these lines “ Their blood upon the wall    With spattered flesh      And bloodied Sunday dresses” ( Hughes pg. 557). Though this may be really mature and to me painfully descriptive it is need to show the struggle every African American person may had to face in the civil right movement. I also included a picture so their was something to compare Hughes poem too. The picture really makes this event even more real because of the poem vividness and with the newspaper it makes it really hit home visually. This poem I find is very important to the movement because it is really showing the things weren’t okay back then. People actually had to fear for things like this happening around their community. This just shows how much fear and oppressed African Americans were.

Malcolm X Speech “ Make It Plain” by Orlando Bagwell Okay I put the first ten minutes of this documentary at the bottom of this presentation. Please take the time to watch it to understand my analyzation on the next page. It didn’t allow me to upload it with the power point. Thank you.

Make It Plain analyzation This was a short excerpt from the documentary Make it Plain by Orlando Bagwell. This video really gives Malcolm X point of view. If you take the ten minutes to watch this video you will be impressed that Malcolm X wasn’t all about the violence he just wanted change faster. He see’s Martin Luther King Jr dream as solely as a dream. He feels that people shouldn’t feel like they have to align themselves with the way white people are ( Make it Plain). People should not except being inseminated in the same culture, but instead make their own culture. This is what I really thought was fascinating about his speeches. He gave new ideas instead of depending on society to finally accept them. You really see that police brutality is a major issue to him in this video and sort of fit in to with Langston Hughes Poem and the image of the Fire Hose protest in Birmingham. One of the main theme through out the protest was the violence the African American Community had to go through in order to survive.

Work Cited "Birmingham-freedom-riders-fire-hose." - AMHS Civil Rights Facebook. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 July 2015. Hughes, Langston, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard, and Leslie Catherine Sanders. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Columbia: U of Missouri, 2001. Print. Malcolm X: Make It Plain. Dir. Orlando Bagwell. 1994. DVD static.communitytable.parade.com/wp- content/uploads/2013/09/Bomb_blast_kills_4_chidren_injures_17_at_church- ftr.jpg

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