For this week’s image, I chose the lyrics from “Oh Freedom”.  I chose this song because it truly expresses the post desegregation attitude against jim crow era segregation.  The lyrics displays that no matter the outcome of fighting segregation, freedom will eventually be brought.

Source:  Golden Gospel Singers

Date:  1997

The image below depicts “South Park Susan” in the state of North Carolina.  Two black women were waiting for their car to be jump started by AAA.  While waiting, Susan berated the two women and asked racially motivating questions that have no place in a conversation.  Ulitmately, Susan turned herself into the police in North Carolina after the vi…[Read more]

The image below shows Horace Albright,  an acting director for the National Park Services, signing the name change of Mukuntuweap National monument to Zion National Monument.  Mukuntuweap was named after the Paiute Native Americans.  Albright changed the name to Zion because mormon settlers were upset with the native name being the official na…[Read more]

The image below shows Jason Hernandez, who was given life without parole in 1998,  for the conspiracy to disrtibute crack-cocaine.  There were 49 individuals related to this sentencing.  Three of them were white and only received probation or under a year in prison.  This situation highlights the racial bias the justice system has against peo…[Read more]

The image below depicts Tom Torlino, a native American attending Carlisle Indian School, in 1882.  The picture shows Tom before and after attending the school.  Carlisle Indian School was founded by Colonel Richard Henry Pratt.  Pratt attempted to erase Native American students’ heritage by implementing western hairstyle, clothing, and spee…[Read more]

The image below depicts the Memphis sanitation worker‘s strike in 1968.  Taken by Ernest Withers, the strike was in retalitation of unequal pay and the inability to progress in the work space because of race.  Furthermore, there was an incident where two men were killed while working and only given 500 dollars for funeral expenses.  The photo demo…[Read more]

The image below depicts the imbedded division implemented to keep whites and people of color segregated.  This photo was taken by Gordon Parks.  Parks took this picture and called it “Drinking Fountains, Mobile Alabama”.   Jim Crow era segregation kept many activities divided based on the color of your skin.  The women shown drinks out of a water…[Read more]

The women in this image is Hilary Brooke Mueller, who was video recorded by D’Arreion Toles in St. Louis.  As Mr. Toles, a black man, attempted to return home to his condominium complex, Mrs. Mueller blocked the entrance.  Later, Mueller demanded Mr. Toles to show her his keys and what his complex number was. Mueller acted this way because she bel…[Read more]