Poster by the Pittsburgh NAACP calling for boycott of Horne's: Museum Object and Cultural History
Poster by the Pittsburgh NAACP calling for boycott of Horne's: Date: ca. 1974. Created by: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909. Type: posters.
The object in the museum catalogue
A poster from the Pittsburgh NAACP calling for a shop boycott. Printed in black ink on off-white posterboard is: [THE PITTSBUGH / NAACP / SAYS / DON’T / SHOP / AT HORNE'S / UNFAIR PRACTICES TO / WOMEN & MINORITIES]. The "Horne's" has been handdrawn with ink on a separate piece of paper and attached to the poster. On the reverse is a severely faded imprint of the black lettering from the front of the poster.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1974
- Created by: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
- Type: posters
- Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions: H x W: 14 1/4 × 22 in. (36.2 × 55.9 cm)
- Place made: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Race discrimination
- Topic: Women
- Object number: 2014.37.41
- 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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