Visual Literacy To Kill a Mockingbird 8th Grade Literature RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

1. Visit to following website: Library of Congress: Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html

2. Read the background information on WHO took these pictures and WHY they were taken.

3. There are 31 photographs in this collection. LOOK at them CLOSELY and think…

What types of racial discrimination are evident in these pictures? What types of activities were segregated? What types of places were segregated? When were these pictures taken? What did you notice about the places that were photographed? What did you notice about the people in the photographs? Why do you think the photographers took these pictures?

4. RELFECT on the power of a sign. Is it powerful? What makes it powerful?

5. Now do your own search and find an image that tells a story of racial discrimination, in America during the 1930s-1960s.

6. Print your image (just on printer paper, not photo paper). Include the following information on a separate piece of paper – typed, staple to the paper with the image. Your information can be a bulleted list or a paragraph.

FACTS:  The name of the website that you got the picture from.  Who took the picture?  When was the picture taken?  What is the picture about?

YOUR REACTION:  Why did you choose this picture? Did it make you surprised, upset, angry, confused? Answer in a complete sentence(s).