Photography and civil rights

changes occurred, such as a black
             student being allowed to enter a previously white only college, Life
             magazine editors did not really know how to address the issue.
             The February 8 issue continued one picture of a black student sitting
             with the enrollment staff of Clemson College, working on the student's
             enrollment paperwork. The photographers caught the student's intrepedation
             at the prospect of joining the college while the words tried to communicate
             a different message. The young student is sitting across from the
             enrollment dean, slightly hunched, and scratching the back of his head. His
             body language says that he is not sure of this process. The young man does
             not express fear outright, but his posture and gesture says that he is
             terrified by what his is doing. None the less, the young man is admitted
             without clash of wills or demonstrations. He becomes the first black man
             The enrollment dean and the photographer both seem to want to
             communicate that this event is no big deal. The deans smiling face,
             ...

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