Makes Statement On School Row: Oliver C. Carmichael, President of the University of Alabama, makes a statement to the press in Tuscaloosa, Alabama that black student Autherine Lucy has been suspended for her own safety. The white students of the school demonstrated against the black her.

Autherine Lucy (b. October 5, 1929) was the first black student to attend the University of Alabama, in 1956. Her expulsion from the university led to President Oliver Carmichael's resignation.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: typewritten title and date stamp.

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:

• Autherine Lucy
• Autherine Lucy
• Broken barriers
• Cameras
• Civil Rights Movements
• Desegregation
• Education
• Expulsion
• Injustice
• Oliver Carmichael
• Racial Discrimination
• Tuscaloosa
• University of Alabama

• Image Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 6 7/8 in. (23.5 x 17.46 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/8 in. (25.4 x 20.64 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen