Summary Of Lila Quintero Weaver's 'Darkroom'

Darkroom a memoir in black & white is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race and identity in the south America, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver. In 1961, when Lila was five years old, she and her family emigrated from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Marion, Alabama, in the heart of Alabama’s Black Belt. They were educated, middle class Latino immigrants in a region that was defined by segregation. The time when Lila came to Alabama was sharply divided by race. As Latina, Lila did not feel safe in Alabama. Darkroom a memoir in black and white is Lila’s personal story. She wrote everything in the book about black and white segregation and her experience of that time. Lila Quintero Weaver did not face any kind of discrimination black citizens encountered. She attended white school, so she could sit in front of the bus. She did not have to involve in black and white discrimination. Being a Spanish speaker and having olive skin still made her feel like an outsider. When she was young she gets scared when some kind of fight happens, but she did not understand that why that was happen. As she grew up, she started to observe and understand the racism of black and white. Both of these two images are connected by their theme of the march they are …show more content…
People in this image are going to protest for the innocent people who were imprisoned by the troopers. There are people sitting on the benches, people standing besides the podium and the window. There is one man standing at the podium and giving the speech. The man is giving the final speech before all the protestor’s head out for protest. The tone of this image is aggressive and inspiring that, “ There is certain darkness awaiting us outside those doors, but I tell you, fear not” (154). These people in the church are about to light a candle and march to the jail to support the ones in the