Flyer promoting the Citizenship Education Project: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This flyer promotes the voter registration goals of the NCNW's Citizenship Education Project. The slogan at the top of the flier reads, "A Voteless People Is a Hopeless People." The flier is adhered to the top half of page 47 in Frances Albrier's scrapbook (2010.60.1).

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1956
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Frances M. Albrier, American, 1898 - 1987
• Subject of: San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, founded 1945
• Subject of: National Urban League, American, founded 1910
• Subject of: National Council of Negro Women, American, founded 1935
• Type: fliers (printed matter)
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 6 1/4 × 4 3/4 in. (15.9 × 12.1 cm)
• Place depicted: San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Social reform
• Topic: Suffrage
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2010.60.1.56.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Frances Albrier Collection
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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