The Foot Soldier of Birmingham

Birmingham, 1963. The image of a police dog viciously attacking a young black protester shocks the nation. The picture, taken in the midst of one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous marches, might be the most iconic photograph of the civil rights movement.

What stood out to me was how statues were described as something that we chose to take seriously, that is something eternal and our voice telling the next generations that this is what we want them to remember. It´s a great way to remember the mistakes we made in the past, look at them, learn from those mistakes and make sure we won´t make them again.

For me this was one of the pictures that most caused social change in the past years.

The pictures is as sad as all the situation of the thousands of refugees that have to leave their home, their cities, their countries, not because they want, they don´t, but they can´t stay for any longer if they want to survive, and still the conditions to go somewhere else are very risky. This picture shows a dead kid on the beach after the attempt of fleeing sailing with his family and other refugees.

 This causes social change because it shows the other countries who refuse to let refugees in that everyone is suffering, that these people don´t want all this to happen, but since it´s happening, all the countries have to come together and help each other.