Gallery of Contemporary Imaginings

A SOC 327 Class Project - Spring & Fall, 1997

Stephanie Yamashita

Tim Hunter

Tunisia Harris

Judy Watters

Marsha Bruemmer

Irma Martinez

Stephanie Yamashita's Selections

• Click here to see images on race & ethnic relations

Regina Lopez's Selections

• Click here to see images on Nazi Germany, Proposition 187, and U.S. bombings

Tim Hunter's Selections

• Bensenhurst 1: Images from a recent riot in Bensenhurst, New York that took place when a white gang murdered a African American man for trespassing "white turf". Source: http://exhibit.blackstar.com

• Bensenhurst 2: Ditto

• Auschwitz 1: Images from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Source http://www.remember.org/jacobs

• Auschwitz 2: Ditto

• Birmingham 1: Images from the Birmingham police riots in the 60's. Source: http://exhibit.blackstar.com

• Birmingham 2: Ditto

• Birmingham 3: Ditto

• KKK Today: This Picture was recorded at a recent Klan rally in Alabama. Source: http://www.photovault.com.

• Dr. King: Delivering his famous "I have a dream" speech. Source: http://pathfinder.com

• Apartheid: This picture depict youth protest against the apartheid regime prevalent in South Africa for many years. Source: http://exhibit.blackstar.com

• The Women's Movement: This picture depict the women's rights movement. Source: http://exhibit.blackstar.com

Tunisia Harris's Selections

Source: http://www.thenerve.com/aahp/danet/dtprints.htm

• The Million Man March. The big center graphic is nothing less than striking and awesome. It shows a black man with the wings of an Angel baring lashes on his back undoubtedly a symbol of not just the slavery blacks were made to endure but a larger symbol of the oppresion and the different forms of beatings that we as a culture must continue to bare. Yet in still we will come together in way or another and share our common bond. It shows faces of present and past influences as well as the variety of shades within our culture.

• Graduation. A graduation of a young black boy from what can be either pre-school or kindergarten. He is beaming and proud and is looking as if he is hopeful about what lies ahead and is very proud and accomplished.

• Tribute to Blacks: Seems to speak for itself

• Those Eyes. A young black male. Those eyes can catch anyone off guard with their twinkle and their serenity.

• Commonly Jazz. It is a bright rendetion of three jazz players in striking color and bold symmetric form.

• Black Women. It depicts different faces and images of mainly black women who have participated in history in one way or another.

• Lil Boy Blue. You would have to know the nursery rhyme.

• Morning Peace. The church in its wholeness is and always has been the main if not the only gathering, social, political, and economic institution for African Americans

• Swinging. It to me relates how a young child gets so much pleasure out of small things in life that tend to be forgotten in adulthood

• High Hopes. Shows a little boy who is window shopping

Judy Watter's Selections

• A Seminole Century Two paintings by Jerome Tiger, a Seminole man. "Seminole 1803" depicts the Seminole in a period when the tribe's rich culture had not been changed by the "White man's ways". "Seminole 1903" brings the Seminole into the present century by depicting the mainstream influence on the Seminole culture. These paintings were completed during a time when Tiger was experimenting with muted, yet striking colors on a deep brown background. The effect of the unique combinations of colors and background is clearly exemplified in these two paintings. This color scheme was another of Tiger's innovations that have become an established part of traditional Indian art. Source: http://www.jerometigerart.com/semin1.gif

Marsha Bruemmer's Selections

• Rosa Parks Rosa Parks sits in the front of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on Dec. 21, 1956, the day a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation of the city's public transit vehicles went into effect. A year earlier, she had been arrested and jailed for refusing to give up her seat in a crowded bus. UPI photo. Source: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/Rosa_Parks_1956.html

• First lunch at the bus station Freedom riders have breakfast at a lunch counter in the bus station in Montgomery, Ala., shortly before leaving for Jackson, Miss. and New Orleans, La. It was the first time the eating facilities at the station had been integrated. AP photo, May 24, 1961. Source: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/lunch_counter_1961.html

• James Meredith James Meredith, center, was the first African American student accepted by the University of Mississippi. His attendance provoked riots. Here he is escorted to class by marshalls. Source: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/Meredith_bodyguards_1962.html

• City Hall Sit-In Four girls sat on the floor in the Seattle City Council chamber during a civil-rights hearing while sit-in spokesman Eddie Givens, right, spoke about the composition of the city Human Rights Commission. Demonstrators were protesting the fact that though the commission was to address an open-housing law, only two of its 12 members were African American --- Rev. Sam McKinney and John Allen. The girls were, from left, Delores Hall, 18, Jackie Ellis,11, Infanta Spence, 20, and Susan Van Dong, 20. Councilmen were, from left,Charles M. Carroll, J.D. Braman, and Paul Alexander. July 25, 1963. Bruce McKim/Seattle Times. Source: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/Seattle_sit-in_1963.html

• Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. accepts a glass bowl from Rabbi Jacob Rothschild. About 1,500 people attended this Atlanta reception honoring King for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo.Source: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/courthouse_1965.html

• March to the Court House Thousands marched to the Courthouse in Montgomery to protest rough treatment given voting rights demonstrators. The Alabama Capitol is in the background. March 18,1965. AP. Source: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/courthouse_1965.html

• Watts, Los Angeles, 1965 On Aug.11, 1965, six days of rioting began in the Watts section of Los Angeles. In the violence, 34 people were killed and 856 injured. Here, a National Guardsman escorts an elderly resident in the riot area.Source: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/Watts_riots_1965.html

• For a King Day Although the holiday wasn't officially recognized yet, many places had their own celebrations. Carrying posters of Martin Luther King Jr., about 1,000 marchers walked the Seattle street renamed for him. Jan.16, 1983. Matt McVay/Seattle Times.Source: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/MLKsigns_1983.html

• Against a King Day Not everyone supported making King's birthday a national holiday. Here, members of the White Patriots Party march in Raleigh, N.C. to honor Robert E. Lee on his birthday, as an alternative holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. Jan. 19,1986. UPI.Source: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/abolish_holiday_1986.html

Irma Martinez Pictures of Malcolm X

• Webpage of pictures of Malcolm X

An ongoing class project

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