Rocky Chats with King's Widow: Governor Nelson Rockefeller chats with Mrs. Coretta King, widow of slain Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., just after the New York Governor spoke at Spelman College in Atlanta. The college was founded by Rockefeller's great grandmother, Laura Spelman, to help educate blacks.

Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) was an American author, activist and Civil Rights leader. She was the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., and she helped lead the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. She took part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and worked to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

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
• Civil Rights Movements
• Coretta Scott King
• Coretta Scott King
• Injustice
• Martin Luther King Family
• Nelson Rockefeller
• Nelson Rockefeller
• Racial Discrimination
• Speeches
• Spellman College
• Widows

• Image Dimensions: 9 5/8 x 6 15/16 in. (24.45 x 17.62 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 7 15/16 in. (25.4 x 20.16 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen