Rocky Visits CORE: New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is greeted by leaders of Milwaukee's black community today as he arrived at church in Milwaukee's CORE area.

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is a black civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for blacks in the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, its stated mission is "to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or ethnic background." Nelson Rockefeller achieved virtually a total prohibition on discrimination in housing and places of public accommodation. He outlawed job discrimination based on sex or age; increased by nearly 50% the number of blacks and Hispanics holding state jobs; appointed women to head the largest number of state agencies in state history; prohibited discrimination against women in education, employment, housing and credit applications; admitted the first women to the State Police; initiated affirmative action programs for women in state government; and backed New York's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Rockefeller outlawed "block-busting" as a means of artificially depressing housing values and banned discrimination in the sale of all forms of insurance.

On verso: manuscript title and typewritten label with title and date affixed.

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:

• Churches
• Civil Rights Movements
• Community leaders
• Congress of Racial Equality
• Food aid
• Injustice
• Milwaukee
• Nelson Rockefeller
• Nelson Rockefeller
• Racial Discrimination

• Overall Dimensions: 5 7/16 x 6 9/16 in. (13.81 x 16.67 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin