Enter Boycotted School: Five black youths, accompanied by several adults, arrive at formerly all-white Woodlawn High School in Plaquemines Parish, where they applied for registration yesterday. The would-be pupils were instructed to return to their black schools to await assignments to white schools. All white students have boycotted the school for the past two days.

Donated to the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College by Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg on June 2, 2021.

Associated Press ID # 6609011496.

On recto: Typewritten label above image, "(NU3) POINT A LA HACHE, La. Spet. 1--ENTER BOYCOTTED SCHOOL--Five Negro youths accompanied by / several adults arrive at fomerly all-white Woodlawn High School in Plaquemines Parish where they / applied for registration yesterday. The would-be pupils were instructed to return to their / Negro schools to await assignments to white schools. All white students have boycotted the school / for the past two days. (AP WIREPHOTO) (jrt51050jrt/stf) (see AP wire story) 1966".

On verso: Handwritten in blue ink, "9/66". Handwritten in graphite at bottom right edge: "CVL-JT-213 2500". Sticker affixed near top left corner: "AAA26796". Handwritten in blue ink but partially cropped at bottom edge: "Segregation Schools L[remainder illegible]".

Sheet: 7 1/4 x 10 1/8

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• Broken barriers
• Civil Rights Movements
• Desegregation
• Discrimination
• Education
• Education
• Injustice
• Plaquemines Parish
• School boycotts
• Students
• Woodlawn High School

• Image Dimensions: 5 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. (14.92 x 24.45 cm)