Images captured of African Americans during the Civil Rights era shows them protesting and marching for their rights, but the portrayal was meant to depict them as weak and incapable of fighting for their rights. In the images the whites always had the upper hand Martin Berger explains the portrayal as a way to ease “white racial anxiety”. Although Martin also makes the point that images were also used to win over sympathy to get some whites on the side of blacks, I agree with Berger the images “ stuck to a restricted menu of narratives that performed reassuring symbolic work.” the media wanted to secure whites and ensure them that blacks were not a threat to their racial power.