Meredith Listening: James Meredith, the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi, listens to a question in New Orleans on Friday, where he told a press conference that any black person is going to "have to get his own house in order" to be able to improve his situation in this country. Meredith is scheduled to speak at the Bogalusa Civic and Voters Rally tonight.

James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is a trailblazer in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1962, he became the first black student admitted to the University of Mississippi, following an intense legal battle in the federal courts. In 1966, Meredith planned a solo 220-mile March Against Fear from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi to highlight continuing racism in the South and encourage voter registration after passage of the Voting Rights Act. The second day, he was shot by a white gunman and suffered numerous wounds. Leaders of major organizations vowed to complete the march in his name after he was taken to the hospital. During his recovery, more people from across the country became involved as marchers. Meredith rejoined the march. When he and other leaders entered Jackson on June 26, they were leading an estimated 15,000 marchers in what was the largest Civil Rights march in Mississippi.

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:

• Bogalusa Civil and Voters Rally
• Broken barriers
• Civil Rights Movements
• Desegregation
• Education
• Injustice
• James Meredith
• James Meredith
• New Orleans
• Press Conferences
• Racial Discrimination
• Students
• University of Mississippi

• Image Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. (21.59 x 10.48 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 9 5/16 x 8 in. (23.65 x 20.32 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen