Announces Civil Rights Drive: Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (right), Chairman of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race, told the Council's General Board of plans for a Civil Rights drive to "deal with the problems of ghetto areas" in the months ahead. Council President Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of Indianapolis (left) lashed out at critics who said he spread "malicious falsehoods" about the Council. The General Board ends a two-day meeting on Friday, Des Moines, Iowa.

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:

• Bishop Reuben Mueller
• Civil Rights Movements
• Commission on Religion and Race
• Dr. Eugene Carson Blake
• Housing
• Injustice
• Racial Discrimination
• Slums

• Image Dimensions: 6 13/16 x 9 1/2 in. (17.3 x 24.13 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 10 in. (20.48 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin