Resigns NAACP Job: Paul B. Zuber, who has fought school segregation in several Northern communities, is pictured in Detroit after resigning as Housing Chairman of the New York State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Zuber resigned after charging that an attempt was made to prevent him from publicly criticizing policies of the NAACP. He attended a convention of the National Lawyers Guild in Detroit.

Paul B. Zuber (1926-1987) was a Civil Rights attorney who fought against inferior schools for blacks in Harlem in 1958 and against segregated schools in New York State, New Jersey, and Chicago during the 1960s. Zuber served in World War II and the Korean War, and he graduated from Brown University and Brooklyn Law School. He was the first black tenured professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). In 1958, Zuber was a Republican candidate for a New York State Senate seat. In 1964, he briefly ran for the Republican nomination in the U.S. presidential campaign, and he sued to nullify Barry Goldwater's nomination by the Republican Party in the presidential election. In 1971, when he was the Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Studies and Associate Professor of Urban Development at RPI, Zuber worked to begin recycling programs in Eastern New York counties. Zuber collaborated with the Columbia County workshop for retarded children to service Columbia and Greene Counties, as worked with the Episcopal Diocese of Albany to get their churches to collect paper. Zuber sought to oppose the ivory tower view of higher education and show that RPI was available for finding solutions to community issues.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: manuscript date and newspaper 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 Movements
• Detroit
• Education
• Education
• Injustice
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Paul Zuber
• Racial Discrimination
• Resignations
• Resignations

• Image Dimensions: 9 5/16 x 6 5/8 in. (23.65 x 16.83 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 9 15/16 x 8 1/16 in. (25.24 x 20.48 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin