Title from caption on object: “A Miscalculation Could Mean Violence”

May 7, 1963

Bill Hudson

Artist, American, 1932 - 2010

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 14.6 × 22.8 cm (5 3/4 × 9 in.)
    sheet: 19.4 × 25.5 cm (7 5/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.456

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Leo Bauby, Chicago; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across bottom printed in image: (ADVANCE FOR MONDAY PMS, JULY 29--WITH BERNARD GAVZER STORY FROM AP-N) / (NY4- July 18) A MISCALCULATION COULD MEAN VIOLENCE--Police reaction to jeering crowds, in either / North or South, could result in major racial violence in the U.S. this summer. As this policeman / in Birmingham faced a crowd in May of this year so will other law enforcement officers in other / cities face demonstrators. A miscalculation in the handling of a crowd could be the spark that / touches off a racial conflagration. (APWirephoto) (b50600fls)1963; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in red ink circled and perpendicular: Negros [crossed out] - Segregation- Demonstration / Blacks -; upper left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: JUL 17 1963 S; center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink inverted

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