Poster advertising a Last Poets performance: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Tan poster with blue type advertising a performance by The Last Poets, in addition to The Third World Connection, The 35th Street Gang, and special guest speaker Hajj Muhammad. The performance is advertised as taking place at the Norfolk Scope Exhibition Hall. The poster include a collage of instruments, people, and other illustrations.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1970s
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: The Last Poets, American, founded 1968
• Subject of: 35th Street Gang, American, active 1970s
• Subject of: Third World Connection, American, active 1970s
• Owned by: Suliaman El-Hadi, American, 1936 - 1995
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 28 3/8 × 22 1/2 in. (72.1 × 57.2 cm)
• Place depicted: Norfolk, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Disco (Music)
• Topic: Funk (Music)
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Islam
• Topic: Religion
• Topic: Spoken word (Poetry)
• Object number: 2014.40.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Qaddafi El-Hadi in memory of Suliaman El-Hadi
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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