Title from caption on object: “Rebuffed Again”
September 26, 1962
Artist, American, 1929 - 1987
Publisher

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 14 × 23.4 cm (5 1/2 × 9 3/16 in.)
sheet: 17.9 × 23.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.449
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
across bottom printed in image: (Editors: This is a recropped retransmission of OXF1 to provide bigger images) / (OXF1) OXFORD, MISS., Sept. 26--REBUFFED AGAIN--Negro James Meredith looks away from Miss. Lt. Gov. / Paul B. Johnson Jr., as Johnson tells him he cannot enter the University of Mississippi this morn- / ing. Mississippi highway patrolmen blocked all entrances to the Ole Miss campus in Oxford and moved / from side to side in Meredith’s way, blocking him and federal marshals trying to get Meredith onto / the campus. (AP Wirephoto) (see AP wire story) (jab41311JAB)1962 / (NY [illegible] Sept 26); on verso, center right Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; center right printed in blue ink inverted: RSN 32549; lower left stamped in red ink: SEP 27 1962