Placard with image of Martin Luther King Jr. used at protests in Washington, DC: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A picket sign that reads [Dr. King's / Legacy... / JOBS / NOT / WAR / AnswerCoalition.org]. Text is black and red. The background at top and bottom is red, and in the center is an image or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The sign is created by stapling two identical posters back-to-back with a picket between them.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2014
• Created by: 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
• Subject of: Michael Brown Jr., 1996 - 2014
• Subject of: Eric Garner, 1970 - 2014
• Subject of: Tamir Rice, 2002 - 2014
• Type: picket signs
• Medium: ink on paper with wood
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 47 13/16 × 16 15/16 × 11/16 in. (121.5 × 43 × 1.8 cm)
• Place used: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Police brutality
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Resistance
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Object number: 2015.211.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Eugene Puryear
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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