Johnson Selects Black Woman To Be Judge: President Johnson poses at the White House today with Constance Baker Motley, black president of the borough of Manhattan. The President announced he will nominate Mrs. Motley to be a federal judge for the Southern District of New York, Washington DC.

Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005), was a key strategist of the black Civil Rights Movement, lawyer, judge, state senator, and Borough President of Manhattan, New York City. She obtained a role with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund before entering law school as a staff attorney and continued her work with the organization for more than twenty years. She argued 12 landmark Civil Rights cases in front of the Supreme Court, winning nine. She was a law clerk to Thurgood Marshall, aiding him in the case Brown v. Board of Education. Baker Motley was also the first African- American woman appointed to the federal judiciary, serving as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Motley died on September 28, 2005 in New York City of congestive heart failure.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: date stamps and newspaper captions with date stamps affixed.

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
• Constance Baker Motley
• Female Portraits
• Injustice
• Lyndon Johnson
• Male Portraits
• New York
• Nominations
• Racial Discrimination
• Washington DC
• White House

• Image Dimensions: 6 3/8 x 8 13/16 in. (16.19 x 22.38 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/8 x 10 in. (20.64 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen