{"id":139,"date":"2009-12-23T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T10:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2013-03-28T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T03:59:09","slug":"images-make-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/images-make-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"Images make movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em>by Lila Rose and Philip Gerard Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Throughout history, images have been used to make the public aware of atrocities and injustices.\u00a0 In 1785, Thomas Clarkson began to examine the morality of the British slave trade while competing in an essay contest.\u00a0 After much research, including interviews with those involved in the slave trade, he devoted the rest of his life to ending slavery.\u00a0 In his anti-slavery pamphlets, Clarkson included images of shackles, branding irons, and ships carrying captured Africans.\u00a0 These images exposed the horrors of slavery to the public, and slavery in Great Britain was finally abolished in 1807 with the \u201cSlave Trade Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1908, photographer Lewis Hine began using photography to expose the cruelty of the child labor industry.\u00a0 In collaboration with the National Child Labor Committee, Hine photographed daily life in steel and glassmaking factories throughout the country.\u00a0 He presented his images in magazines, posters, and through public exhibits in order to expose the dangerous working conditions of his time.\u00a0 One social historian commented that Hine\u2019s photography \u201c[brought] into view what normal social vision has been conditioned to ignore.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/trodd-lewis-hine-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141\" title=\"trodd-lewis-hine-01\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/trodd-lewis-hine-01.jpg\" width=\"586\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most Americans can recall images presented to us as children depicting the persecution of African Americans in the Civil Rights movement.\u00a0 From policemen attacking protestors with fire hoses and police dogs, to murdered African Americans hanging in trees, these \u201cgraphic\u201d images continue to be used as a form of education and as a constant reminder of what our \u201ccivilized human race\u201d is still capable of doing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The murder of Emmett Till helped mobilize the American Civil Rights Movement.\u00a0 Accused of whistling at a white woman, fourteen-year-old Till was beaten beyond recognition, shot in the head, and thrown into the Tallahatchie river.\u00a0 His mother chose to invite the public and media to Emmett\u2019s funeral, and allow the press to take photographs.\u00a0 Mrs. Till also chose to leave her son\u2019s casket open.\u00a0 Millions were enraged by the murder of the young boy, especially after seeing the widely publicized photo of Emmett\u2019s mangled face.\u00a0 Mrs. Till told the media, \u201cI want the whole world to see what they did to my baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/emmett-till-composite-266x191.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142\" title=\"emmett till composite-266x191\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/emmett-till-composite-266x191.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If only those same words could be heard today as 3,700 babies are torn from their mothers\u2019 wombs every day.\u00a0 Unlike those who bravely showed images from steel factories and the Civil Rights movement, many are reluctant to show images of the victims of abortion.\u00a0 The result is a widespread ignorance of the magnitude of this \u201csilent genocide,\u201d but we must not remain silent any longer.\u00a0 If the world were to see the victims of abortion, would so many still be willing to tolerate it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/abortion_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144\" title=\"abortion_2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/abortion_2.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Judith Mara Gutman, Lewis W. 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