Placard calling for the raising of the minimum wage to $15: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A placard, white with read ink creating text and image in the negative, that reads [RAISE THE / MINIMUM WAGE] at top left and [15 / NOW / .ORG] at bottom right. At bottom left is a depiction of a man in a hat with his fist raised in the air. There are no marks or text on the back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2015
• Created by: Socialist Alternative, American, founded 1986
• Subject of: Freddie Gray, American, 1990 - 2015
• Type: placards (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 19 × 13 in. (48.3 × 33 cm)
• Place collected: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Police brutality
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Object number: 2015.163.2
• 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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