A Word from the Chairman: Chairman Joseph Clark (D-Pennsylvania) has a word with Reverend Ralph Abernathy in Washington DC before the leader of the Poor People's Campaign appeared as a witness at a Senate Labor and Public Welfare subcommittee hearing on emergency employment legislation. Between them are the Reverend Andrew J. Young and Senator Jacob Javits (R-New York).

Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990) was a Baptist minister who, with Martin Luther King, Jr., organized the historic Montgomery Bus Boycotts. Abernathy co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was a major Civil Rights figure, serving as close adviser to King and later assuming SCLC Presidency.

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

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
• Hearings
• Injustice
• Joseph Clark
• Male Portraits
• Poor People's Campaign
• Poor People's Campaign
• Poverty
• Racial Discrimination
• Reverend Ralph Abernathy
• Reverend Ralph Abernathy
• Senate Labor and Public Welfare Subcommittee
• Testimonies
• Washington DC

• Image Dimensions: 5 7/16 x 7 9/16 in. (13.81 x 19.21 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 8 7/16 in. (16.51 x 21.43 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen