final exam essays: the Automotive Industry in Michigan & Civil Rights in the United States
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The 1943 Detroit Race Riot
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Midterm Essays: People of the Michigan Frontier and the Lives of African American Slaves
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Photo Analysis of Michigan HIstory
1925 KKK Funeral in Hesperia, MI
The first impression I get when looking at this photograph is a sense of questioning rage and situational irony. In this moment, all these people are wearing garments that are associated with fear, murder, and hate. Yet, in this moment, they are respectful, mournful, and peaceful for deceased. They are expressing an emotion that all humans feel at multiple points in their life. There is a sense of peace, but the history behind the Ku Klux Klan changes the mood to hateful irony. What I wonder who the person was who passed away. Were they a Klan member or a relative to a Klan member? Which part of the funeral is this photo capturing? Are the two men in the center Klan members as well, or are they religious representatives, officiating the funeral? How did the deceased die? For all these questions, I can most likely find answers from wherever the picture came from, whether it be a museum, textbook, or website. I can assume that the two men in the midst of all the white are pastors. I also assume that this might be the end of the service and that the hearse to the right of the page is leaving with the coffin inside. I can also assume that the building in the background is the church where the service was held. |
1940 Migrant Farm Labor Family, Berrien County, MI
There is something refreshing about this photograph. The people in the photo seem happy. Most of the children look happy as well. There is an overall free vibe about this photograph that I really enjoy. They do not have a lot, since it seems like they are currently traveling from location to location, but they’re happy with that they have. Except maybe for the toddler next to the woman in the white pants. That child does not seem to be having a good time. From what I can tell, it looks like this family is traveling, the parents looking for work as they go. It looks like they might currently be taking up residence on a farm where the parents might be working, due to the hay piles in the background of the photograph. It might be the morning in this photograph due to the child washing their face in the pie pan in the foreground. I am not entirely sure what the woman in the sweater is doing. I infer that maybe she is picking up a bucket that is hidden behind the metal car part. I assume this due to her hand position and body language, that she’s holding a handle that is similar to the buckets under the tent. What I’d like to know is what is that big metal thing that the lady in the sweater is by? It looks like a car part, but I’m not entirely sure. I also wonder if this family always travels in the way that is shown here, with pitching a tent on the side of the car and having metal beds with mattresses in them. Where do they store the mattresses? Is there enough room in that car for all their living supplies? I assume I can find the answers to these questions from whatever source this picture may be found in, or from an article about migrant living in Michigan. I could also look for primary sources of interviews from migrants who lived this way. |
1942 Woman War Worker in Ferndale, MI
This photograph feels toxic to me. Looking at it I feel the grime and filth and smog that she might be feeling. I get these feelings from the dust and grime on the table, the soot on her uniform, and the fact that she has to wear a mask. She seems pretty young, so I assume she’s either just graduated high school or did not finish school. I also assume she is making some sort of car part due to the machinery she is operating and the metal object she is drilling a hole into. I wonder how old she actually is. To me, she looks to be about maybe between the ages of 18 and 25. I also wonder what her mindset was going into employment for this job. Was she feministic and determined to show that women can do the same as men, or was she reluctant since she was only working for money? I also wonder what the button on her jumper says. It looks like it might be a nametag for work, but it could be a propaganda button of some sort. I can most likely find the answers to these questions by finding interviews with female workers of the time, generic articles and documents about female employment during the 1940s, and a restored and higher quality copy of the photo. Unanswered Questions I found that with each picture I came upon the same, unanswered question for the photograph. I want to know why they captured these pictures. Were they for propaganda, in reference to the woman worker, or for family memorial, as in the case of the Ku Klux Klan funeral and migrant family? I would like to know what prompted the photographer to get their camera out and shoot this moment in time. Nowadays we use these pictures as a blast to the past, but what were their purpose in the moment? |
Fact or Fiction: The Boston "Massacre"
We were given a few eye witness accounts from the trial for the British soldiers for the Boston Massacre. We were asked if naming the event a "massacre" was appropriate or if it should be called an "incident" or something else based solely on the eye witness accounts we discussed and reviewed.
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