License Plate with the slogan "Stop Busing our Children": Museum Object and Cultural History
License Plate with the slogan "Stop Busing our Children": Date: ca. 1971. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: George Wallace, American, 1919 - 1998.
The object in the museum catalogue
A white license plate with black text. On the left is an illustration of George Wallace with a black and white photograph of his head superimposed on a cartoon body. Wallace is seen holding a yellow, white, and black picket sign with a cartoon image of Richard Nixon. In the lower right corner is a yellow school bus with children seated inside. In between the two images is black text that reads: [STOP busing / our / children].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1971
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: George Wallace, American, 1919 - 1998
- Subject of: President Richard M. Nixon, American, 1913 - 1994
- Type: license plates
- Medium: metal, ink
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 6 1/8 x 12 1/8 x 1/16 in. (15.6 x 30.8 x 0.2 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: Race relations
- Topic: Transportation
- Object number: 2012.159.13
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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