Placard calling for reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A handmade placard that reads “GIVE / ENOUGH! / REPARATIONS / NOW!” on one side. The sign is written in black marker on a white piece of poster board and is attached to a wooden stake with five metal staples.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 2001
• Created by: Unidentified
• Owned by: Eddie Faye Gates, American, 1934 - 2021
• Type: picket signs
• Medium: dye on poster board, wood
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 35 × 13 15/16 × 1/4 in. (88.9 × 35.4 × 0.6 cm)
• Place depicted: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Economics
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: Tulsa Race Massacre
• Object number: 2014.117.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa OK, author, historian, community activist
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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