White Girl Chats with Black Student at University of Georgia: Hamilton Holmes, a black student allowed to enroll in the University of Georgia by federal court order, chats with a female white student as he waits outside the girl's dormitory to see Charlayne Hunter. Hunter is the other black coed who enrolled at the school under the same court order. Other students gawk in the background.

Hamilton E. Holmes (July 8, 1941 – October 26, 1995) was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two black students admitted to the University of Georgia. Additionally, Holmes was the first black student to attend the Emory University School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. in 1967. Holmes later became a professor of orthopedics and associate dean at the school.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault (b. 1942) is an award-winning journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. She and Hamilton E. Holmes were the first two black students admitted to the University of Georgia.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: 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
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault
• Civil Rights Movements
• Court Orders
• Desegregation
• Dormitories
• Education
• Hamilton Holmes
• Injustice
• Male Portraits
• Racial Discrimination
• University of Georgia

• Image Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 10 5/16 in. (19.05 x 26.19 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/8 x 10 5/16 in. (20.64 x 26.19 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen