Having been born at the tail end of the 80s, I can say that my knowledge of the 70s is hazy at best. I had no idea that there had been such a televised event of a high profile tennis match between a man and a woman. In this source you will find a three minute video that recounts this event. Although it may not seem to initially relate to the photograph or the photograph's message, the high profile match is symbolic of the sort of tension many men and women faced during the 1970s. I'd like to think in some way the tennis match between Billie Jean Kind and Bobby Riggs sort of embodies the quote, "I am your worst fear I am your best fantasy."

This powerful entry was written in 1977 during the President's Interagency Council on Women National Plan of Action. It reads like a manifesto -an account of where women have been, where women are now (when the present was 1977) and where women want to be in the future. Reading this, I thought of the class photograph this week and the text that was on the woman's sign of protest, "I am your worst fear I am your best fantasy." This entry is descriptive of the true reality of woman in this decade and I feel reading it was essential in better understanding where many women back in the 1970s were coming from.

This source provides a quick glimpse into who Diana Davies is and what she is most known for, photographing American civil rights and folk imagery. Though the description given is brief, links are provided to explore further Davies's other photographic works and a more in-depth biography can be found. Through this source we are afforded the opportunity to better understand who Davies is and understand her significance and personal attachment to the civil rights movement. You will find that Davies has photographed many significant facets of American history.

Contrary to what I'd known before, lesbian women did not have a history of being openly accepted in the feminist cause, something which is documented in the first section of this report. For this entry I would say focus on the first section "Origins: Responding to Feminist Exclusion," although much of what is contained here touches upon other issues like race, which may be of interest. I felt like this source could give us a glimpse into what sort of reality and challenges Donna Gottschalk might have faced being a lesbian feminist.

This entry is specifically for the first section of a long report. This section gives useful background information of what America was encountering during this time period with respect to women's rights, civil rights, and lgbt rights in the 1970's. I appreciated the basic information provided revolving around famous protests that are now often discussed when discussing civil rights and feminism in the 1970's. This source helps provide context to the photograph in that it informs you about the cultural climate of society around the time this photograph was taken.

This is a pretty cool source, it is a series of interviews of people who lived through the great depression. The first interview in particular is of a man who grew up living in a sharecropping community. I've said it before but to be able to read the account of those who lived through a particular event really brings to life what we read about. In these interviews you hear about how hard life was for so many.

Here "hoovervilles" are discussed: the origin and meaning of the term, what basic hoovervilles generally were like, and interestingly enough, the history and existence of Hooverviles in Washington state. Although the subject in the photograph was from the south and that area came with its own sort of culture during this time, I feel that understanding Hoovervilles are relevant to the conversation of the great depression.

This source discusses a brief history of sharecropping and gives perspective of what sharecropping was like from the perspective of living in Arkansas. I chose to include this link because although it may provide more general information, it can give us insight into what the lives of those Walker Evans photographed were like.

Discusses the legacy of Walker Evans's and James Agee's collaboration in documenting what they saw in Hale County, Alabama. I liked this piece not only for the detail it gives in the controversy that surrounded this project, as well as its legacy, but how it felt from the perspective of the subjects and their descendants (specifically the controversy and sentiment in publishing their names). The piece shows the sort of embarrassment and shame the subjects felt in sharing with the world what their lives looked like, what dire poverty in America looked like during the great depression.

History of Walker Evans's journey into photographing what he saw during the great depression, how an assignment to photograph what he saw truly turned into sharing the truth of the hardship people were enduring as a result of the depression. This source shows us the significance in how Evans chose to document the poor who were suffering; Evans didn't portray his subjects in a light that might otherwise draw upon a viewer's sympathy (which this source goes into more detail), but the reality of the lives of those he photographed.

This is a short interview with Rosa Parks. In watching this interview, we are afforded the opportunity to hear from Ms. Parks herself as she gives her account of the day of her arrest. She gives the viewer a feel for the climate of things back then, though it is a more general rather than detailed idea. If anything, this interview adds life to the photo and is a chance for us to hear a firsthand account.

I was really excited to have come across this document. It is a primary source from the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), written shortly after bus segregation was deemed unconstitutional in 1956. The text reads as a list, for those who followed the MIA, on how to continue to act and conduct themselves in light of the recent changes to law. One line stands out, "Demonstrate the calm dignity of our Montgomery people in your actions." It makes me think of Ms. Parks in the image that was taken, and keeping in mind how it had been said before that she was of outstanding character, the quote resonates with me in that I see her as something of a model for everyone else to follow at the time.

The following website lists the events surrounding Parks' arrest and that of the bus strike in chronological order, which can be helpful in making sense of the order in which things took place. This site in particular is very good for understanding the bus strike that took place only days after Parks' arrest in terms of understanding context and how much work and effort strike organizer's and participants went through to see that the strike would be successful. I was surprised to have learned about the lengths the Black community went through to see the strike be successful -carpooling, discounted taxi rides, regular meetings to discuss the state of the strike. Now having read the material hosted at this site, I look at the photograph and wonder if Parks had any idea what was come, what had been set in motion.

Particularly in the beginning of this website's piece, what is special about this webpage is the amount of background information that is given. When you visit this site you are able to read and learn about the ongoing struggle that the Black community in America faced, well before Rosa Parks was arrest on December 1st, 1955. What was interesting to discover in this encyclopedia entry was that Ms. Parks was not the first person to be arrested for not giving up their seat because of their race. What this entry does for our understanding and appreciation of the photograph is that we are provided a concise yet detailed account of the events surrounding the bus strike, the ruling of segregated buses in 1956, as well as history of before Park's arrest. This information helps us understand that there is much more the photograph that what may have previously understood.

This website retraces the events of the day as pictured in the photograph. Not only does it go over the event in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, but it also discusses the bus strike of 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Details are also provided of the organization behind the strike, Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), along with a brief explanation of Dr. Martin Luther King's and Ralph Abernathy's involvement. There is also a short summary of the resulting court decision on segregated busing in 1956, along with an example of the sort of pamphlets that were circulated at the time to announce the bus strike back in 1955. This site serves to provide not only a brief, yet well rounded explanation of this photo's history, but gives us an understanding of who was behind the strike as well as what resulted from their effort.