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Williams?MaryCHARTERED ’693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2011Strategic Victimizat Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childretion: News Photographs, the Birmingham Children's Crusade, and the Revisualization of AmericaMargaret Keeton WilliamsCollege of William & Mary ■ Arts & SciencesFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etdPart of the American Studies Commons, and the Journalism Studies Commons Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham ChildreRecommended CitationWilliams, Margaret Keeton, 'Strategic Victimization News Photographs, the Birmingham Children's Crusade, and the Revisualization oStrategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childre
f America' (2011). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539626646.https://dx.doi.Org/doi:10.21220/s2-nmse-pz39This Thesis is brought toWilliams?MaryCHARTERED ’693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2011Strategic Victimizat Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childre. Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of waM Scholarworks For more information, please contact scho!arworks@wm edu.strategic Victimization: News Photographs, The Birmingham Children’s Crusade, and the Revisualization of AmericaMargaret Keeton WilliamsDallas, TexasBachelor of Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham ChildreArts, Rhodes College, 2006A Thesis presented to the Graduate Faculty of the College of William and Mary in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of ArtsAStrategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childre
merican Studies ProgramThe College of William and Mary January 2011APPROVAL PAGEThis Thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements foWilliams?MaryCHARTERED ’693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2011Strategic Victimizat Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childreollege of William and MaryABSTRACT PAGEThe American memory of the Civil Rights Movement is grounded in the iconic images that have come to represent the African American struggle for equality. Through the images created during the struggle for Civil Rights, the American public saw the reality of lif Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childree for African Americans in the South, but more importantly the state of American democracy. Reflected in these images is an America divided between thStrategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childre
ose who defined citizenship as a matter of exclusion and those who fought for inclusion among that number. This is particularly true of the photographWilliams?MaryCHARTERED ’693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2011Strategic Victimizat Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childrees of citizenship within America. The violence depicted in these images is not forgotten but has been superseded by the remembrance of the movement's accomplishments. The modem audience reinterprets the horrific violence represented in these images to stand for the triumph of American democracy in t Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childrehe African American struggle. But the sentimental nationalism for which these images stand in today's context begs questions about how their meaning tStrategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childre
o contemporary 1960’s audiences challenged the Amencan social system. How did those 1960's audiences read these images? How did these images work to sWilliams?MaryCHARTERED ’693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2011Strategic Victimizat Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childretions to news coverage of the movement allows for insights into how the Civil Rights Movement reshaped American democracy. The images, which appeared in national newspapers and magazines during the 1963 Birmingham protests, mark a major turning point within the movement and the American reaction to Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childrethe Civil Rights Movement. As the primary purveyor of contemporary photographs, national news publications became the medium through which the strugglStrategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childre
e over Afncan American agency and victimization played out. Without the self-conscious awareness of image making and the creation of events that forceWilliams?MaryCHARTERED ’693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2011Strategic Victimizat Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childreerican society would not have been possible. The images of the violence in Birmingham published following the May 1963 protests were vital to the success of the movement. Thus, an examination of those images that appeared in the national press and the reaction to those images can give US greater ins Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childreight into the ways in which the movement used the media to its advantage.The use of children combined with the violent reaction of the civic authorityStrategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childre
worked to highlight the injustices and hypocrisy of the American social structure The triangular relationship of producer, subject and audience in thWilliams?MaryCHARTERED ’693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2011Strategic Victimizat Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childrethe American social landscape. While the reshaping of a national identity was not an immediate process, the images, which appear in the mainstream media during the Birmingham protests, mark a major turning point within the movement and the Amencan reaction to the Civil Rights Movement. Without the s Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childreelf-conscious awareness of image making and the creation of events that forced confrontational, politically corrective images such as those discussedStrategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childre
here, the creation of a community of sympathizers and the reevaluation of the African American place in American society would not have been possible.Williams?MaryCHARTERED ’693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2011Strategic Victimizat Strategic Victimization- News Photographs the Birmingham Childrethe movement and a key in reshaping the American social landscape.List of FiguresWilliams?MaryCHARTERED ’693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2011Strategic VictimizatGọi ngay
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