In the book of “Seeing through Race” Martin A. Berger lays out a reinterpretation of Civil rights photography related to the U.S Civil Rights era (1950s & 1960s). According to Berger, white press had full control of hiring the photographers, reporters and editors. This situation caused a big conflict on reflection of the true story. I strongly agree that whites are in charge of hiding the true story of brutalism and violence from the Civil Rights march.

        Media has always had a powerful influence on readers. Readers beliefs are highly dependent on how media presents the story. Even though, some of pictures show how white mobs acted aggressively towards black activists, those pictures were ignored by white media. Therefore, the truth wasn’t reached to all readers. Unfortunately, we are still facing the fact that blacks are being discriminated and treated like second class citizens now. Recently we had issues similar to these in 1965. The killing of George Floyd shows we didn’t make much progress on the equalization of human rights as the struggles of black Americans still remain. Furthermore, media publishes only black violence, not how white officers use their weapons or their authority on innocent black people. I believe that Black Lives Matter is a instrumental movement in order to open people’s eyes. I hope it will change control of the media to not only show a specific narrative but give everyone a fair chance to find the truth.