Placard from memorial march reading "HONOR KING: END RACISM!"
Object Details
- Printed by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Allied Printing Trades Council, founded 1911
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
- Description
- A placard comprised of black ink on white (yellowing) card stock. Text reads [HONOR/ KING: / END/ RACISM!]. There is a small hole at the top where the placard would have been stapled to wood and carried. The back has a series of handwritten numbers on the top center edge.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- 1968
- Object number
- 2011.57.6
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- placards (information artifacts)
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 21 1/2 x 14 in. (54.6 x 35.6 cm)
- Place used
- Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Civil Rights
- Hate crimes
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2011.57.6
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5f6e0de3a-c625-435a-b27a-2fd02217c372
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