Placard reading "Stand Against War & Racism": Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Sign with wood handle. Sign has two (2) posters stapled together over the top half of the wood post. The front is a poster of a black and white image of Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking into a microphone with his PR hand raised near his face. Along the top and bottom are large bands of red with black text. Within the top band are the words [Stand Against/War & Racism], and the bottom band reads [www.ANSWERcoalition.org\]. On the reverse is a white poster with black and gray lettering. On the left side are gray blocks of color, stacked vertically. [ACT/NOW/TO STOP/WAR/& END/RACISM/InternationalANSWER.org].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: after 2001
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Attributed to: Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.), American, founded 2001
• Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
• Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
• Type: placards (information artifacts)
• Medium: paper, printing ink, wood
• Dimensions: H x W (with stick): 49 1/8 × 17 1/16 in. (124.8 × 43.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (without stick): 22 × 17 1/16 in. (55.9 × 43.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (stick): 48 1/8 × 1 1/2 × 9/16 in. (122.2 × 3.8 × 1.4 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Communication
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Resistance
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Object number: 2013.200.4
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Catherine M. Bailey
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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