STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY: Instructions

What’s the story behind the photograph? Try to answer as many of these questions as possible in the next hour, then organize your thoughts into an essay.

The history of the times—specific personalities, persons, problems, trends, and events—explain each of these photographs.

For your assigned photograph, please research “the story” behind each of these photos. This means:

Explain the specific events or issue it refers to.Explaining the issue and the history behind the photo. What

factors caused or made this photo possible?Explaining why the photo was probably taken.Explain the immediate history and legacy AFTER the photo.

Briefly explain what happened to the photographed persons, the effects of the event, etc.

Every Picture Tells A StoryWhat’s involved?

• A 1-2 page single spaced paper addressing the questions on the front. Think of yourself as a combination of historian and detective.

• A presentation of 2-4 minute presentation You’ll have the “slide” on the LCD screen.

WWII Photographstaken in Los Angeles,1943

1939 rally, Madison Square Garden

Photo of an American hero, involved in late thirties politics

Navajo indians, 1943.

U.S. Marines, 1945

Photograph by Robert Capa

Photograph, Dec. 8, 1941

Photograph, Life MagazineAugust 14, 1945“Kissing Nurse”

Photograph and Image,American homefront, World War II

Photograph takenAt Ramitelli, Italy—March 1945.

Photograph taken, April 1, 1942—in Lone Pine, California.“Japanese arrive”

Two men, standingin a desert in New Mexico, 1945

Spring of 1945

Carlson’s Raiders

Clue words: go for broke, nisei

Cassius Clay in New York with

Malcolm X, 1963.

Martin Luther King Jr. and others, April 3, 1968.

Photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1936.

Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, 1936

Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir, 1903

1965, Dolores Huerta

U.S. Marshals escort 6 year old Ruby Bridges

From a New Orleans elementary school, where

she was the only enrolled black child.

Wounded Knee, 1973.

Black Power:

The Black

Panthers

and the

Yellow Peril

--Oakland,

1969

Student Elizabeth Eckford on her way

to Central High School in Little Rock,

Arksansas, 1957.

1968 Olympic Games

Kent State, Ohio 1970

Members of the "Washington Freedom Riders Committee,"

en route to Washington, D.C. and the Deep South

At the Woolworth’s Diner, Jackson, Mississippi,

May 1963.