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 history shows, writers and photographers have played a big role in how we see society as a whole.photographer and journalists another people can give and shows the truth of what is happening in the world, however, know one can  never know whether what you are seeing is the whole truth. In the video ” Seeing the Race”, Martin Berger reveals how during the 1950s and 1960s photos of black people during the civil rights movement were used for comforting white people. Because most of the writers and photographers were white, they lean to show black people as the victims and can’t fight for their rights. Berger stated “ the photographs allowed white viewers to feel secure, and therefore more amenable to change”, and in illustrating blacks as victims, However, they never showed the strong side of them. their perseverance and the protest to get their rights.