Judges Walk to Court to Hear Integration Suit: Judges Boyd Sloan and Frank Hooper walk from their chambers to the courtroom to preside over a trial in United States District Court in Atlanta. In the law suit, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People opens a major offensive to destroy Atlanta's school segregation laws.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: 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:

• Atlanta
• Boyd Sloan
• Civil Rights Movements
• Desegregation
• District Courts (U.S.)
• Education
• Frank Hooper
• Injustice
• Male Portraits
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Racial Discrimination
• Schools
• Trials

• Image Dimensions: 9 5/8 x 6 15/16 in. (24.45 x 17.62 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (24.77 x 18.42 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen