Praises Segregation Efforts: Excommunicated Roman Catholic and Plaquemines Parish political czar Leader Perez, Sr. (with tie on) brings down his fist to make a point. He gets applause from nearly 75 white adults who have been picketing Our Lady of Good Harbor Catholic School (in background). The pickets protested desegregation of the school. The five black students who integrated Wednesday remained away on Thursday and today. Perez arrived in Buras about an hour after the Reverend Christopher Schneider, Pastor, announced the closing of the school today, Buras, Louisiana.

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:

• Buras
• Civil Rights Movements
• Desegregation
• Education
• Injustice
• Leander Perez, Sr.
• Our Lady of Good Harbor School
• Picketing
• Racial Discrimination
• School closures
• Speeches

• Image Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 9 in. (17.46 x 22.86 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 10 in. (20.48 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen