Plan Civil Rights Strategy: Senator Richard Russell of Georgia poses with his Democratic colleague from Mississippi, Senator John Stennis (left), as they confer in a Capitol hallway about plans to oppose the Civil Rights bill. Russell is the leader of forces opposing the legislation in the Senate, Washington DC.

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

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil Rights Movements
• Georgia
• Injustice
• John Stennis
• Male Portraits
• Mississippi
• Racial Discrimination
• Richard Russell
• United States Capitol
• Washington DC

• Image Dimensions: 9 3/16 x 6 15/16 in. (23.34 x 17.62 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/16 in. (25.4 x 20.48 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen