Turned Back: a mother who identified herself as Mrs. P. M. Wadsworth (left center) accompanies a group of children to Tuskegee High School in Tuskegee, Alabama. A line of state troopers surrounded the building and turned them away. Alabama Governor George Wallace closed the school to prevent integration.

Associated Press ID #6309030457

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

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
• Education
• George Wallace
• Injustice
• Mrs. P. M. Wadsworth
• Police
• Racial Discrimination
• Segregation
• Students
• Tuskegee
• Tuskegee High School

• Image Dimensions: 7 x 9 1/2 in. (17.78 x 24.13 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 10 in. (20.48 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen