Placard with "We Are the Ones..." from the Women's March on Washington: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A placard used during the Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017. The poster is white with handwritten, red, orange, purple, yellow, green and blue block text that read, [WE ARE / THE ONES / WE'VE BEEN / WAITING / 4!]. Venus symbols with hair, an ankh symbol, inverted Peace symbol/Venus symbol, and spirals are hand drawn in the spaces between the text. Along the bottom edge of the sign are two (2) symbols, the combined letters [KN] hand-drawn inside a circle. The back of the placard is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: January 21, 2017
• Created by: Kelly Elaine Navies, American
• Subject of: Women's March, American, founded 2017
• Type: political posters
• Medium: ink and pastel (material) on poster board
• Dimensions: H x W: 14 × 22 in. (35.6 × 55.9 cm)
• Place used: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Place made: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2017.86.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kelly Elaine Navies
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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