Capstone Project – Protesting in America

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Protesting is the first amendment right given to us Americans, yet when some people decide to protest they are attacked. Whenever we hear about protesters we immediately want to shame them. Yet American’s have been protesting since before America was even founded, the founding of America was pretty much the doing of protest. Gay rights, women’s rights, civil rights, even our secession from Britain. People protest when they disagree with the status quo, and even though during the time they are viewed as anarchist, over time they’re viewed as revolutionaries. My question is if protesting is so in grained in American culture, why is so frowned upon. Most things we take for granted today were once protested. Is there a wrong way to protest? Is there a wrong thing to protest? These are only a few of the questions I hope to answer or at least examine thoroughly so we learn more about protesting and its effect on American citizens and government. With this assignment I want to help outline some historical protests and their outcome with an infographic. Cataloging protests that have changed the status quo and continue to have an influence today’s society. After that I want to create a remix video of protests, their opposition, and the general atmosphere and attitude towards protesters. Highlighting the difference between violent and peaceful protests as well as showing violet opposition to protesters.

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