Activity+Two+Anallyzing+Images+of+Desegreation

This is a picture (from the Library of Congress) of Dorothy Counts one of four black students who integrated a Charlotte high school in 1957. [[image:msethridge/br0125bs.jpg width="394" height="376"]]
Answer the analysis questions about this image. Your Name: **Image Analysis -1** Answer these questions about the image, keeping in mind what you know about the time period when the image was created. 1. Who is shown in this image? 2. What action is taking place in this image? 3. What can you tell from the people in the image – their body language, facial expressions, posture, the way they seem to be moving, where they are in relation to others in the picture, etc.? 4. Why do you think the photographer or artist created this image? 5. What mood or emotions do you feel when looking at the image?

Repeat the procedure for the second image (from the University of Michigan’s Brown V. Board of Education Digital Archive), a [|photograph of Gustevas Roberts], who also integrated Charlotte schools in 1957. Your Name: **Image Analysis -2** Answer these questions about the image, keeping in mind what you know about the time period when the image was created. 1. Who is shown in this image? 2. What action is taking place in this image? 3. What can you tell from the people in the image – their body language, facial expressions, posture, the way they seem to be moving, where they are in relation to others in the picture, etc.? 4. Why do you think the photographer or artist created this image? 5. What mood or emotions do you feel when looking at the image? View the image (from the Guggenheim Museum), of the Norman Rockwell painting [|The Problem We All Live With] (1964). The painting is based on the experience of Ruby Bridges, who integrated New Orleans schools at age six in 1960. Your Name: **Image Analysis -3** Answer these questions about the image, keeping in mind what you know about the time period when the image was created. 1. Who is shown in this image? 2. What action is taking place in this image? 3. What can you tell from the people in the image – their body language, facial expressions, posture, the way they seem to be moving, where they are in relation to others in the picture, etc.? 4. Why do you think the photographer or artist created this image? 5. What mood or emotions do you feel when looking at the image?
 * 1) What do they think is “the problem we all live with”? Do we still live with this problem?
 * 2) Are there common themes or emotions in the three images? Do your think the artists had similar or different motivations in creating the images?