Two witnesses who appeared before the House Judiciary Subcommittee as hearings on Civil Rights legislation continued. Left is Edward Scheidt, of Charlotte, North Carolina, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for North Carolina, and right is Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP, Washington DC.

Roy Wilkins (1901-1981) was an instrumental figure in Congress' passage of the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950s and 1960s. He was one of the key leaders who organized the historic March on Washington. Additionally, Wilkins helped to oversee an increase in membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 25,000 members in the 1930s to more than 400,000 by the 1970s.

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:

• Civil Rights laws
• Civil Rights Movements
• Edward Scheidt
• House Judiciary Subcommittee
• Injustice
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• North Carolina
• Racial Discrimination
• Roy Wilkins
• Washington DC
• Witnesses

• Image Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. (17.15 x 9.84 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Image Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 4 3/16 in. (17.15 x 10.64 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 7 x 9 1/8 in. (17.78 x 23.18 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen