Unknown Photographer
Members of the NAACP Youth Council have a brief scuffle with a white youth in Milwaukee. They were marching in a white neighborhood seeking fair housing legislation at the time., September 1967
Vintage wire photograph on paper
9 5/8 x 7 in. (24.45 x 17.78 cm)
Creation Place:
North America
Technique:
Photography
Credit Line:
Restricted gift of Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg in honor of Myrlie Evers-Williams.
Accession Number:
P2021.13.606
Commentary
Scuffle During Rights March: members of the Youth Council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People struggle with a white youth during a brief scuffle. The marchers, seeking fair housing legislation, were walking through a white neighborhood at the time. A white man and white youth were taken into custody by police, Milwaukee.
Marks
On recto: typewritten title and date. On verso: manuscript title.
Materials
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)
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
Activists,
Arrest,
Civil Rights Movements,
Fair housing laws,
Fighting,
Housing,
Injustice,
Marches,
Marches,
Milwaukee,
NAACP Youth Council,
Police,
Racial Discrimination,
Street Scenes
- Activists
- Arrest
- Civil Rights Movements
- Fair housing laws
- Fighting
- Housing
- Injustice
- Marches
- Marches
- Milwaukee
- NAACP Youth Council
- Police
- Racial Discrimination
- Street Scenes
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Dimensions
- Image Dimensions: 9 5/8 x 7 in. (24.45 x 17.78 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
- Sheet Dimensions: 10 1/16 x 7 3/4 in. (25.56 x 19.69 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
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