Rest in peace, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. This photo is one of thousands of previously unpublished civil rights-eta photographs discovered in a cardboard box in an equipment closet at the Birmingham News in 2004. The paper made them public in a series of stories and photo exhibits in 2006. See the full online collection here. I offered a reading of this particular image on BagNews in 2006. Image credit: “March 6, 1957: The Rev. Shuttlesworth is stopped before entering the whites only waiting room at Birmingham’s Terminal station. This photo came one day after the Alabama Public Service Commission ruled that the waiting rooms must remain segregated. Robert Adams, Birmingham News.”

Rest in peace, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.

This photo is one of thousands of previously unpublished civil rights-eta photographs discovered in a cardboard box in an equipment closet at the Birmingham News in 2004. The paper made them public in a series of stories and photo exhibits in 2006. See the full online collection here.

I offered a reading of this particular image on BagNews in 2006.

Image credit: “March 6, 1957: The Rev. Shuttlesworth is stopped before entering the whites only waiting room at Birmingham’s Terminal station. This photo came one day after the Alabama Public Service Commission ruled that the waiting rooms must remain segregated. Robert Adams, Birmingham News.”


7 months ago  1 note

Egypt and analogues: The BAG’s got a nice read of the top photo of events at Kasr Al Nile bridge in Cairo. A commenter there rightly noted parallels to Birmingham ‘63,  but think also about the Edmund Pettus Bridge; this photo powerfully condenses both. (One expects Obama’s noticed that as well.) Speaking of Obama, the White House wants us to know he’s on the case.

image credits: Kasr Al Nile unattributed (via @BagNewsNotes/ ollywainwright/twitpics); Charles Moore, Birmingham, 1963; marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, 1965 via Library of Congress; Pete Souza, the White House

1 year ago  2 notes

Grad Student Research Alert 2! I would love to see what an enterprising visual rhetoric scholar might do with one of these projects: 1. A study of the role of Robert Franks’ The Americans in Cold War rhetorical culture. 2. The Movement, a photo book produced by SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) in 1964. Edited by Lorraine Hansberry and Elizabeth Martinez. Described in one bibliography I found as “now rare and hard to find, but beloved and treasured by those lucky enough to possess a copy.” Here’s something to get you started.

Grad Student Research Alert 2! I would love to see what an enterprising visual rhetoric scholar might do with one of these projects:

1. A study of the role of Robert Franks’ The Americans in Cold War rhetorical culture.

2. The Movement, a photo book produced by SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) in 1964. Edited by Lorraine Hansberry and Elizabeth Martinez. Described in one bibliography I found as “now rare and hard to find, but beloved and treasured by those lucky enough to possess a copy.” Here’s something to get you started.

1 year ago  2 notes

Rest in peace, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. This photo is one of thousands of previously unpublished civil rights-eta photographs discovered in a cardboard box in an equipment closet at the Birmingham News in 2004. The paper made them public in a series of stories and photo exhibits in 2006. See the full online collection here. I offered a reading of this particular image on BagNews in 2006. Image credit: “March 6, 1957: The Rev. Shuttlesworth is stopped before entering the whites only waiting room at Birmingham’s Terminal station. This photo came one day after the Alabama Public Service Commission ruled that the waiting rooms must remain segregated. Robert Adams, Birmingham News.”

Rest in peace, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.

This photo is one of thousands of previously unpublished civil rights-eta photographs discovered in a cardboard box in an equipment closet at the Birmingham News in 2004. The paper made them public in a series of stories and photo exhibits in 2006. See the full online collection here.

I offered a reading of this particular image on BagNews in 2006.

Image credit: “March 6, 1957: The Rev. Shuttlesworth is stopped before entering the whites only waiting room at Birmingham’s Terminal station. This photo came one day after the Alabama Public Service Commission ruled that the waiting rooms must remain segregated. Robert Adams, Birmingham News.”


Egypt and analogues: The BAG’s got a nice read of the top photo of events at Kasr Al Nile bridge in Cairo. A commenter there rightly noted parallels to Birmingham ‘63,  but think also about the Edmund Pettus Bridge; this photo powerfully condenses both. (One expects Obama’s noticed that as well.) Speaking of Obama, the White House wants us to know he’s on the case.

image credits: Kasr Al Nile unattributed (via @BagNewsNotes/ ollywainwright/twitpics); Charles Moore, Birmingham, 1963; marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, 1965 via Library of Congress; Pete Souza, the White House

Grad Student Research Alert 2! I would love to see what an enterprising visual rhetoric scholar might do with one of these projects: 1. A study of the role of Robert Franks’ The Americans in Cold War rhetorical culture. 2. The Movement, a photo book produced by SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) in 1964. Edited by Lorraine Hansberry and Elizabeth Martinez. Described in one bibliography I found as “now rare and hard to find, but beloved and treasured by those lucky enough to possess a copy.” Here’s something to get you started.

Grad Student Research Alert 2! I would love to see what an enterprising visual rhetoric scholar might do with one of these projects:

1. A study of the role of Robert Franks’ The Americans in Cold War rhetorical culture.

2. The Movement, a photo book produced by SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) in 1964. Edited by Lorraine Hansberry and Elizabeth Martinez. Described in one bibliography I found as “now rare and hard to find, but beloved and treasured by those lucky enough to possess a copy.” Here’s something to get you started.

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Visual Politics: All things visual in public life. Presented by Cara Finnegan, scholar, teacher, rhetoric geek. Lover of photography, art, print culture, politics, and troublemakers.

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