Controversial Integration Scene in Chicago: black students from inner-city schools are transferred to Dever Elementary School in a white neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side today. Man at left raises arm and shouts something derogatory. Students were bused to a less-crowded school as part of the Chicago School Superintendent's controversial education plan, Chicago.

Associated Press ID # 6803110177

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: manuscript title and Associated Press 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
• Busing
• Civil Rights Movements
• Dever Elementary
• Education
• Injustice
• Northwest Side
• Racial Discrimination
• Segregationists
• Street Scenes

• Image Dimensions: 7 1/16 x 9 7/8 in. (17.94 x 25.08 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 10 1/8 in. (19.05 x 25.72 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen