Blacks Students Arrive for Class: A black boy and girl walk down the entrance to Grenada High School, where violence erupted when the school was integrated. Black students peacefully entered the school today under the protection of the Mississippi Highway Patrol. White students are in the background, Grenada, Mississippi,

Associated Press ID #6609131211

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: manuscript title, Associated Press stamp 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:

• Broken barriers
• Civil Rights Movements
• Desegregation
• Education
• Grenada
• Grenada High School
• Injustice
• Mississippi Highway Patrol
• Racial Discrimination
• Security
• Students

• Image Dimensions: 6 13/16 x 9 7/16 in. (17.3 x 23.97 cm) Measured by Martin, Jack
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 10 in. (20.48 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Martin, Jack