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¶ … Louisville Flood
The photograph "The Louisville Flood" by Margaret Bourke-White is a courageous and accurate representation of the injustices that are perpetuated in American society today and which have been a part of our history for decades. The title of the photograph refers to the Ohio River Flood of 1937 in which from January to February damage occurred from Pennsylvania to Illinois. One need to only look at the facts to determine how devastating the damage of this flood in fact was: "Seventy percent of Louisville was submerged, forcing 175,000 residents to flee. Ninety percent of Jeffersonville, Indiana was flooded. One contemporary source estimated that damage was done to the tune of $250,000,000 (1937 dollars)...that's over $3.3 billion in current dollars!!" (National Weather Service, 2012). Thus, one can clearly see how residents in this part of the world were in dire need of aid and lots of it. In 1937, race relations in America were still raucous and left much to be desired. In the south, where...
Such circumstances in treatments caused Black Americans at this time to earn less, have lower standards of quality of life and lower levels of safety, what with the presence of the Ku Klux Klan still prevalent.
Bourke-White's Black and white photograph shows a one-point perspective of African-Americans in heavy overcoats and other outer wear, lined up single file for aid. The expressions on their faces are sedate, troubled, one could even say expressing deep unhappiness. What makes the photograph so striking is that these honest and hard-working African-Americans are standing in front of an enormous billboard for a purely patriotic advertisement for simply the "American Way of Living." The billboard is so enormous; it appears to fill an entire wall of the exterior of a side…
References
Service, N.W. (2012, June 4). The Great Flood of 1937. Retrieved from National Weather
Service: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=flood_37
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