1. What is the first thing you notice in the photo? The first thing I notice in the photo is the man dressed in all white. 2. Why do you think you notice it first? I notice the man first because he’s in all white. He looks mad or like he’s trying not to be seen.
4. What is going on in the photo? There is a man dressed in all white standing under a sign that reads, “Colored waiting room“at a bus station along with other people. There are people already on a bus and people waiting for the bus. The man in white looks angry or like he’s trying not to be seen.
6. What word would you use to describe the overall feeling/ mood of the photo? I think the mood is tired or mad of having to live through segregation.
8. What do you think the photographer was thinking when he/she took the photo? I think the photographer was trying to show how people had to live with segregation everyday and everywhere they went. The photographer was trying to show anger. 9. Write a short story from the point of view of one person in the photo? It was so hot that day the sun was strong. I was at the bus station
and again it was hot. I couldn’t help but notice that everyone
seemed to look at me maybe it was because of all the white. I was
in the colored waiting room, but it was even hotter and crowed in
there. So I went to stand outside and wait for the bus. I was waiting
for one of my cousins to come from Alabama I hoped she got here
okay. I heard that things have gotten really bad down there. I was
waiting for an hour now and the bus she was supposed to be on wasn’t
here yet. I started looking around I noticed many of the signs but
the main one noticed was the “colored waiting room”
sign. I noticed that African Americans were always told what to
do, where to sit, where to work. Their wasn’t many opportunities
going for African Americans. I also noticed I was the only “colored”
person as they say it waiting outside and the people around me were
mostly talking about me but I wasn’t going to move. I mostly
looked down or at the signs around me I was tired of all the people’s
stares. Suddenly I seen a man approach me and he said, “What
are you doing out here boy”? I said, “I’m waiting
for my cousin” “Go back to your waiting room”,
he yelled and pointed its direction. “I’m not moving”
I said. He looked very angry he was going to call for some help,
but just then I saw my cousin. “Alright I’ll move”,
I said and I gave my cousin a hug and got her bag as we walked to
my car. The man looked mad but I guess my cousin saved me. Right
now I wasn’t thinking of that I just wanted to catch up with
my cousin and I was happy she made it alright. Delano, Jack. “At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina.”
1940.
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