Judges Walk to Court to Hear Integration Suit: Judges Boyd Sloan (left) and Frank Hooper walk from their chamber to the courtroom to preside over a trial in U.S. District Court today. They will hear a suit in which the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People opens a major offensive to destroy Atlanta's school segregation laws, Atlanta.

On recto: typewritten title and date. On verso: Associated Press 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
• Boyd Sloan
• Civil Rights Movements
• Courtrooms
• Desegregation
• Education
• Frank Hooper
• Injustice
• Lawsuits
• Male Portraits
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Racial Discrimination
• U.S. District Courts

• Image Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 6 3/8 in. (22.23 x 16.19 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 15/16 x 6 11/16 in. (22.7 x 16.99 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen