Equality is one of the ideals on which the United States is based. Unfortunately, the country—and its laws—has not always lived up to that ideal. The tension was evident in the Constitution itself, when Northern and Southern states agreed to do nothing about slavery and to count each African American slave as 3/5 of a person for purposes of representation and taxation. Such injustices are seen by many as unjust laws. Over the course of U.S. history, Americans have protested against such legal injustices in an effort to move the country toward fully embodying the ideals on which it was based.
We then discussed how people might protest unjust laws and examined several photos of protests. We discussed the intentionality of frames within photographs.
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