Placard from dance recital performance "Dance to Glory" by Studio A: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This cardboard sign is a rectangular piece of cardboard with with text in plastic cutout letters attached via adhesive, and also handwritten text in black marker. The text reads "Equal/ Rights/ Continue/ 2 Fight" There is a narrow flat stick of wood mounted to the back with adhesive as a handle. The back is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2015
• Created by: Studio A Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, American, founded 2002
• Type: signs
• Medium: ink and plastic with adhesive on cardboard with wood
• Dimensions: H x W (sign): 22 1/16 × 27 15/16 in. (56 × 71 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (handle): 26 × 1 1/2 × 3/16 in. (66 × 3.8 × 0.5 cm)
• Place used: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Police brutality
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Topic: Violence
• Object number: 2016.22.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Studio A Modeling, Etiquette and Dance Academy of Baltimore, MD
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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