Burned Cross, a Symbol of Protest: Tougaloo College student Austin Moore, 21, carries a burned cross at a protest by hundreds of Methodists in Pittsburgh today. They claim their church's stand on integration is inadequate. Moore said the cross was burned by segregationists on his college campus in Tougaloo, Mississippi.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: manuscript title, Associated Press stamp, 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:

• Activists
• Austin Moore
• Civil Rights Movements
• Cross burning
• Desegregation
• Education
• Injustice
• Methodist Church
• Pittsburg
• Racial Discrimination
• Segregationists
• Tougaloo
• Tougaloo College

• Image Dimensions: 6 5/8 x 9 3/8 in. (16.83 x 23.81 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in. (20.48 x 25.24 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen