History of Social Reforms Photography by Katondra Givens https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c Period 1 en-us 2020-12-02 16:11:20 UTC 2025-10-08 15:20:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Social Reform kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980508592 Lewis Hines
A known photographer in the 1900s that exposed child labor and the horrors of it. He used photography as a documentary tool and led to changing child labor laws. 

]]> 2020-12-02 16:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980508592 Child Labor kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980511074 The number of children under the age of 15 who worked in industrial jobs for wages climbed from 1.5 million in 1890 to 2 million in 1910.

]]> 2020-12-02 16:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980511074 Immigration Work kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980513129 He photographed the tenements and sweatshops where the immigrants were forced to live and work. These pictures were published in 1908 in Charities and the Commons.]]> 2020-12-02 16:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980513129 Child Labor kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980513705 To raise awareness of the abuses of child labor, the NCLC hired sociologist Lewis Hine to photograph children working in fields, factories, mines, and city streets. His photos - - and reports, produced between 1908 and 1924, fueled public opinion and inspired Congress to enact national child labor legislation.]]> 2020-12-02 16:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980513705 Passing the Bill kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980517385 By 1916, Congress passed the Keating-Owens Act that established the following child labor standards: a minimum age of 14 for workers in manufacturing and 16 for workers in mining; a maximum workday of 8 hours; prohibition of night work for workers under age 16; and a documentary proof of age. ]]> 2020-12-02 16:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980517385 Documented Immigrant Builders kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980564398 In 1930, he was commissioned to document the building of the Empire State Building in New York City, photographing the 3,400 workers, mostly immigrants, who worked at dizzying heights with little or no safety equipment. ]]> 2020-12-02 16:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980564398 Federal Wage and Honor Law 1938 kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980565448 The Act was declared constitutional in 1941 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The law that doesn’t allow students to work before 16 and was initially started by Lewis Hine. 

]]> 2020-12-02 16:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980565448 Civil Rights kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980596010 He would photograph the great leaders of the civil rights era, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver, and those who rallied behind them.]]> 2020-12-02 16:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/980596010 Influence of Social Reform ae62342 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/984457537 This video depicts the history and breakthroughs involved with Hines' photography for social change. ]]> 2020-12-03 16:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/984457537 Gordon Parks 1940- 1970s kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988075157 In the 1940s he was called to Washington to photograph how life really was for African Americans on the streets. He was called by Roy Striker who believed Gordon could combat racial discrimminaton. ]]> 2020-12-04 16:10:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988075157 Civil Rights 1956 kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988139773 Documented the reality of life under segregation in the Jim Crow South.]]> 2020-12-04 16:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988139773 Danny Lyon kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988141534 In August 1963, Danny’s photographs helped secure justice for over 30 teenage girls active in the Movement in Americus, Georgia]]> 2020-12-04 16:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988141534 Documenting Life's Chaos ae62342 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988152610 Lyon's inspiration was real people in the madness of real life. His goal was to capture the way real people lived, rather than the glossed over version that TV and mainstream media presented. He is known for his documentation of social, economic and civil rights issues.]]> 2020-12-04 16:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988152610 Segregated Drinking fountains kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988234461 In 1962 Danny Lyon became the original staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which is a national assembly of college students who had joined together after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter. From 1963 to 1964, Lyon traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions capturing telling moments of the Civil Rights Movement.]]> 2020-12-04 16:44:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988234461 Conversations with the Dead 1971 kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988235012 In 1971 Danny Lyon's most well known photo essay collection Conversations with the Dead was published. He took photographs of prison life ]]> 2020-12-04 16:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/988235012 Emmit Till kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/1010302066 In August 1955, a 14-year-old black boy named Emmett Till from Chicago visited his relatives in Money, Mississippi, and was brutally murdered by whites]]> 2020-12-11 16:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/1010302066 Black Press kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/1010334646 news publications throughout the United States that wanted to serve or defend the African-american communities. Their main goal was for education to become a key to equality. These newspapers were a sign of their freedom. After the Civil War, the black press dedicated itself to rebuilding black communities and black political movements.]]> 2020-12-11 16:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/1010334646 Stephan Shames 1984-1989 kg8583 https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/1016636547 Shames was a photographer who's main focus was on the awareness of social issues. in 1984 Shames traveled across America photographing the lives of five children in the United States who live below the poverty line.]]> 2020-12-14 16:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kg8583/xku7y71jmsibge3c/wish/1016636547