Picket and Counter-Picket: Atlanta restaurateur Lester Maddox, staunch segregationist and candidate for Lieutenant Governor, watches as a picket from the NAACP national convention carries a sign in front of his restaurant. At left, several small boys carry signs boosting the candidacy of Maddox, whose restaurant was one of many picketed.

Associated Press ID #620703069

On recto: typewritten title and date.

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:

• Atlanta
• Civil Rights Movements
• Injustice
• Lester Maddox
• NAACP Convention
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Picketing
• Pickrick Restaurant
• Political campaigns
• Political campaigns
• Politics
• Protesters
• Racial Discrimination
• Restaurants
• Street Scenes

• Image Dimensions: 6 11/16 x 9 1/16 in. (16.99 x 23.02 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 6 13/16 x 9 3/16 in. (17.3 x 23.34 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen