Look at the primary source clues carefully. Determine what you see, and what questions you might ask to get the big picture. Discuss quietly with your.

Look at the primary source clues carefully.

Determine what you see, and what questions you might ask to get the big picture. Discuss quietly with your table group as we progress.

What shapes and patterns do you see in this picture?

Where do you think this picture was taken?

What makes you think that?

When do you think this picture might have been taken?

What makes you think that?

What might all the people in this picture have in common?

Some of the people in this photograph are holding signs. What do you think might be written on these signs?

Do you think this is an important photograph to study? Why or why not? What sounds would you expect to hear if you were where this picture was taken?

TITLE:  Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol / [JTB].Taken August 20, 1959 by John T. BledsoeNOTES: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. SUMMARY:  Photograph shows a group of people holding signs and American flags protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School.

People demonstrate or protest in many different ways and for varied reasons. Look at the following photographs and discuss the ways in which groups can gather and express dissatisfaction. What is each group protesting?

. food protest. Library of Congress: American Memory.

. http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/03000/03090v.jpg. Library of Congress.

. http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/06500/06591v.jpg. Library of Congress.

. Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike after being refused service at an F.W. Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, N.C. 1960. Library of Congress: Exhibitions, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship.

American Colony (Jerusalem). (1929). Arab protest delegations, demonstrations and strikes against British policy in Palestine (subsequent to the foregoing disturbances [1929 riots]). An Arab "protest gathering" in session. In the Rawdat el Maaref hall. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Negatives.