I am a student at Westlake High School and am choosing to share this research because this is how it has impacted me when viewing art that was used to document the human side of the Civil Rights Movement.  I chose this photo and this painting to show how they impacted me. The Civil Rights Movement art showed me how people, young and old, boycotted and marched for their civil rights. The photo of Mrs. Coretta Scott King at her husband’s funeral shows how Dr.Martin Luther King, JR’s wife and his daughter were impacted by his assassination.  He was a world leader of the Civil Rights movement, but he was also a son, husband, father, brother, and friend. He was human, too. The painting by Norman Rockwell of Ruby Bridges shows how important having equal access to an education was for African Americans students. The two large federal guards are walking this young girl in to school in direct contrast to this little black girl holding books, who is so determined to get an education that she is not going to let anybody or anything stop her.   These two pieces of art are game changers because they demonstrate what can and did happen when African Americans were trying to change the system that was oppressive and dehumanizing.  My next blog comments will be research on the Anti-Apartheid Movement and photos that were representative of the movement in South Africa.  More to come….Demetrius