Invitation to reception commemorating 1979 Grenadan revolution: Museum Object and Cultural History
Invitation to reception commemorating 1979 Grenadan revolution: Date: 1981. Created by: People's Revolutionary Party, Grenadian, 1979 - 1983. Subject of: Maurice Bishop, Grenadian, 1944 - 1983.
The object in the museum catalogue
An invitation from Prime Minister Maurice Bishop to attend a reception celebrating the Second Festival of the Revolution. The party is being thrown by the political party in power, the People's Revolutionary Government. The back of the document is blank.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1981
- Created by: People's Revolutionary Party, Grenadian, 1979 - 1983
- Subject of: Maurice Bishop, Grenadian, 1944 - 1983
- Type: invitations
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 4 1/2 × 6 1/8 in. (11.4 × 15.6 cm)
- Place depicted: Grenada, Caribbean, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Decolonization
- Topic: Government
- Topic: International affairs
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
- Object number: 2010.55.74.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Dr. Maurice Jackson and Laura Ginsburg
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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