How to make opaque white transparent?

I have a JPEB, black words, hand lettered, on white.
When I place it into an InDesign doc, on a solid color, the white background, being opaque, covers the solid color.
How do I make that opaque white into a transparent background? Two manuals do not give me a clue.
Thanks.

larry red miller wrote:
So if I go back to the original .psd file, a transparency option will
materialize in one of the menus?
No.. Photoshop transparency is automatically seen in Indesign for .psd files. All you need to make the background transparent in Photoshop.
larry red miller wrote:
Well, uhh, that is what I wanted to k now. Where do I find those methods?
If you Google for "remove background in Photoshop" you will literally find THOUSANDS of tutorials.

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