Poster for SCLC reading "Injustice Anywhere...a threat to Justice Everywhere": Museum Object and Cultural History
Poster for SCLC reading "Injustice Anywhere...a threat to Justice Everywhere": Date: 1977-1997. Created by: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957. Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black ink on a red-orange poster board with a small picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the top left and Joseph Lowery at the top right. The poster reads: [SCLC / INJUSTICE / Anywhere... / a threat to / JUSTICE / EVERYWHERE / M. L. KING].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1977-1997
- Created by: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957
- Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
- Subject of: Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery, American, 1921 - 2020
- Type: political posters
- Medium: ink on poster board
- Dimensions: H x W: 24 x 19 7/8 in. (61 x 50.5 cm)
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Justice
- Topic: Political organizations
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
- Object number: 2010.41.4
- 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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