Placard from memorial march reading "HONOR KING: END RACISM!": Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A placard comprised of black ink on white (yellowing) card stock. Text reads [HONOR/ KING: / END/ RACISM!]. There is a small hole at the top where the placard would have been stapled to wood and carried. The back has a series of handwritten numbers on the top center edge.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Allied Printing Trades Council, founded 1911
• Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
• Type: placards (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 21 1/2 x 14 in. (54.6 x 35.6 cm)
• Place used: Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Hate crimes
• Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
• Object number: 2011.57.6
• 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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