On The Inside Looking Out: Mario Savio, leader of recent University of California demonstrations, watches with a smile as a guard at the door of the Federal Building in San Francisco screens those who enter. Savio leads a of group who want to present the U.S. attorney with a demand for more federal protection for blacks attempting to register in Alabama. Savio got in ahead of the group. The doors were closed by authorities for 20 minutes today before the group was finally admitted to the lobby. They did meet U.S. Attorney Cecil Poole, a black man, in the lobby.

Mario Savio (1942-1996) was an American activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He is most famous for his passionate speeches, especially the "put your bodies upon the gears" address given at Sproul Hall at University of California, Berkeley on December 2, 1964. Savio remains historically relevant as an icon of the earliest phase of the 1960s counterculture movement.

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:

• Alabama
• Cecil Poole
• Civil Rights Movements
• Education
• Education
• Federal Buildings
• Injustice
• Mario Savio
• Racial Discrimination
• San Francisco
• Security guards
• University of California Berkeley

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