Birmingham Image 04 16 2013 Image Events image events are often orchestrated by social movements and they are defined as deliberately staged spectacles designed to attract the attention of the mass media and disseminate persuasive images to a wide audience p 2 social movement large scale effort marriage equality movement women s rights environmental movement Johnson article on images claims that movements stage visual events because they know that the mass media will pick it up Freedom Trash Can image women throw bras in trash to fight for women s rights women in tree to save redwood in Northern California Rhetorical Situation MLK Birmingham Exigencies Constraints Resources Segregation in south economic legal commercial Cold war world divided East from West We wanted democracy East was bad guys wanted communism We wanted to convert more countries to our side PR BATTLE against East always trying to prove that we were better than them Competing politically and ideologically Photos March took place on May 3 1963 Photos made by Charles Moore Published in Life magazine Published on newspaper covers Memento at March on Washington August 1963 Dr King wasn t getting the attention he needed so he specifically put the next movement in Birmingham because there was a reliable bad guy Bull Connor he would get instigated enough Dr King allowed school children to walk in march in Alabama he knew Bull Connor would try to end the protests Then school children would be victims thus creating heart wrenching photos 04 16 2013 04 16 2013
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