Palante, Volume 4, Number 24: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A copy of Palante newspaper, volume 4, number 24. One half of the paper reads one way and is all in Spanish, the other reads in the opposite direction and is in all English. The middle page, a layout of all different photographs with a Spanish and English caption that reads: [Nixon You Liar, Sign The Ceasefire!]. One of the covers features a photograph of protestors. In the middle of the crowd is a banner with hand-painted text in Spanish. Above the photograph, in the upper half of the page, is large block type that reads: [PEACE IN VIETNAM OR / MORE OF NIXON'S LIES? / (SEE page 2) / At Home / (SEE PAGE 3) / Thousands Marched on Nov. 4]. At the top is the masthead, outlined in black, with black type that reads: [Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization / PALANTE / 25 / cents / (YOUNG LORDS PARTY) / Vol. 4 No. 24 New York Nov. 8 - Nov. 21, 1972 Bi-Monthly]. The masthead features a silhouette of the Young Lords Party logo on the left side. The logo includes type that reads: [TENGO PUERTO RICO / EN MI / CORAZON / YLP]. The bottom is a rectangle listing the volume and number, featured article titles, publisher information and postage. The interior consists of twenty-three pages.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: November 8, 1972
• Published by: Young Lords Party, American, founded 1969
• Subject of: Palante, 1970 - 1972
• Type: newspapers
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 16 13/16 × 11 11/16 in. (42.7 × 29.7 cm)
• Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
• Cultural Place: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: Multilingual communication
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Resistance
• Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
• Object number: 2014.109.7.18
• 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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