WP1: Pre-Writing Assignment 1

This picture is called "Mississippi Delta Negro children." It was taken by Dorothea Lange in July 1936.

In this photograph there are four visible children. I am guessing that the are brothers and sisters. The girls sitting looks like she is the oldest, then the boy stand in front of her to be the next oldest, then the boy leaning on the post and finally the littlest to be the little child leaning on someone in the background.

The kind of life they live looks to me as a poor family with lot of relatives to take care of. None of the children have shoes on. Their clothes are working clothes. The boys have overhauls on and the girls have dresses on. Most farmer where overhauls out in the field when they are farming so that's why I associated their clothes as working clothes. The look like they are tire and hot. Considering this picture was taking in Mississippi, I'm sure they were hot. The porch is broken in the front with pieces of it laying on the ground.

The architecture in this picture is a porch that they are sitting on. The porch looks rugged and pieces are falling off of it. The support of it is made from brick, a railing is a pole but the rest of it is made from would. It does look pretty sturdy for the most part. There isn't much landscape to see beside the ground that the porch is on and where the little boy is standing. And some bushes in the background on the side of the house/porch.

The kind of activities that would take place there is the family sitting around relaxing. It would be a place where they could keep an eye on their children, and to socialize amongst each other. Slavery ended Aug 14, 1865, but they still didn't have the freedom they deserved until 1968 until the Civil Rights Movement came in effect. The kind of people that we would see here are African America's that either live there.

This picture made me feel sad. The children look sad and depressed. The boy standing up looks exhausted. Taking history class and knowing what they had to go through breaks my heart. Its a picture that I want to jump in and help save them from their sad or hardships that they'll have to go through.