Advance Research Methods - Group presentation 

research notes + analysing the image

- quality of the room: dirty, small, decrepit, poor lighting conditions 

“in the former gallows” (gallows definition - the apparatus for executing the sentence of death by hanging) - done there to spite the black people registering to vote // laughing + mocking them and to show that the white people still have power of them - this is also shown by the white man standing over the old lady intimidatingly 

show who’s in charge - remind them they can still kill them easily + get away with it like they’d done for years already, example emmett till case 

- old lady looking directly at the camera 

shows defiance / even more so with the middle aged white man standing over her

one of the main/most important drives of the civil rights movement was education - activists promoted literacy programmes to help black people who had been denied a lot of access to good/any eduction because of segregation and racism (especially the older generations) to read and write which could enable them to engage more in society and have their voices heard through voting

- Man sitting in the “property of Lowndes County” chair 

back to the camera - faceless/can represent a lot/all of the black people who took part in the march and registered to vote

implying subtly how white americans + the government(especially in the southern states) thought of black people as their property/below them // even though slavery had been abolished, with jim crow laws black people weren’t free to do everything and not viewed as equal to white people 

lowndes county - 1500 residents, 80% black: referred to as “bloody lowndes” because of the high rate of violence towards black people done in order to maintain segregation // maintained white supremacy by intimidation and violence -   86 white families owned 90% of the land and controlled the government // black residents mainly had low level rural jobs + 80% lived below the poverty line // before march 1 1965, not one black resident could/had registered to vote. 

- Juxtaposition between the 2 people looking directly into the camera and the 2 people facing away from the camera.