Blacks Quietly Register: A black family with two young children leaves all-white H.V. Watkins Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi this morning after they registered. Jackson city schools lowered first grade racial barriers today under a Federal court desegregation order. There were no bystanders at the schools and no incidents.

Associated Press ID #640820083

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: date stamp and newspaper 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
• Civil Rights Movements
• Court Orders
• Desegregation
• Education
• Families
• H. V. Watkins Elementary
• Injustice
• Jackson
• Racial Discrimination

• Image Dimensions: 9 9/16 x 6 7/8 in. (24.29 x 17.46 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/8 in. (25.4 x 20.64 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin