Pre-Conference Talk: four Southern governors, scheduled to meet later in the day with President Eisenhower at the White House, pose at a breakfast conference in Washington DC where they meet to try to forge a common proposal on how to deal with the crisis over troop-enforced integration in Little Rock, Arkansas. Left to right are: Frank Clement of Tennessee; Luther Hodges of North Carolina; Leroy Collins of Florida; and Theodore McKeldin of Maryland.

On recto: typewritten title and date. On verso: typewritten title 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:

• Broken barriers
• Civil Rights Movements
• Desegregation
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Education
• Florida
• Frank Clement
• Injustice
• Leroy Collins
• Little Rock
• Little Rock Central High School
• Luther Hodges
• Maryland
• Meetings
• North Carolina
• Racial Discrimination
• Segregationists
• Tennessee
• Theodore McKeldin

• Image Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (19.05 x 24.77 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 3/16 x 10 in. (20.8 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin