Martin Luther King Artifact Analysis

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A popular saying goes by a picture is worth a 100 words and when it comes to my image (artifact), the same can be said about the image I selected from the whitehouse.gov/issue website. The image was found under civil rights and the image has a quote inserted into it. The image has prominent members of the society whom were very involved in the civil rights movement like martin Luther king. When it comes to diversity, the image compromises of diversity in race and age group. The artifact consists of landscape, the white house and the American flag and also it is in white and black. At the bottom of the image, the quote by martin Luther king inserted is "If the worst in American life lurked in [Selma's] dark streets, the best of American instincts …show more content…

We learn or encounter history in our daily interaction either thorough media or basic conversation and with tings like flags, black and white, white house and Martin Luther king all in one image, it is clear to assume that any individual would know what each individual items represent t if not all of them collectively. When tracing the history and underling meaning in the artifacts and cross-referencing it to stone symbol, it becomes clear that the white house is telling a stymied progress story. They are telling this story in the sense that in the beginning things were bad and minorities didn’t have civil rights but after the movement civil rights was achieved and now in the future, something is threatening this achievement either through the citizens nothing working together to achieve a common goal like MLK said we should or by us deviating from the right path. The white using this image, they are basically trying to communicate to the public on how far we have come, what we have accomplished and what we can achieve if we work

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