Smiles, After A Morning In Court: Former Major General Edwin A. Walker smiles for photographers along with Mrs. Robert Surrey of Dallas, Texas as they leave federal court in Oxford this morning. U.S. District Judge Claude F. Clayton is hearing motions to erase reference to a court-ordered mental test in the federal government's suit charging Walker with conspiracy and inciting insurrection. The charges grew out of the September 30th riot on the Ole Miss campus, the day black student James H. Meredith arrived to desegregate the University. Mrs. Surrey was described as a family friend, Mississippi.

James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is a trailblazer in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1962, he became the first black student admitted to the University of Mississippi, following an intense legal battle in the federal courts. In 1966, Meredith planned a solo 220-mile March Against Fear from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi to highlight continuing racism in the South and encourage voter registration after passage of the Voting Rights Act. The second day, he was shot by a white gunman and suffered numerous wounds. Leaders of major organizations vowed to complete the march in his name after he was taken to the hospital. During his recovery, more people from across the country became involved as marchers. Meredith rejoined the march. When he and other leaders entered Jackson on June 26, they were leading an estimated 15,000 marchers in what was the largest Civil Rights march in Mississippi.

On recto: manuscript title, typewritten title and date.
On verso: manuscript date and newspaper 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:

• Broken barriers
• Civil Rights Movements
• Conspiracy
• Courthouses
• Desegregation
• Education
• Edwin Walker
• Edwin Walker
• Inciting a riot
• Injustice
• James Meredith
• Mrs. Robert Surrey
• Oxford
• Racial Discrimination

• Image Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. (22.54 x 15.88 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/16 in. (25.4 x 20.48 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen