Poster for the Lowndes County Freedom Organization: Museum Object and Cultural History
Poster for the Lowndes County Freedom Organization: Date: 1966. Distributed by: Lowndes County Freedom Organization, American, founded 1965. Designed by: Unidentified.
The object in the museum catalogue
A poster used by the Lowndes County Freedom Organization. The black-and-white poster has a centrally depicted graphic of a crouching, snarling black panther. Printed above and below the graphic is black, block text that reads, [MOVE ON OVER / OR / WE’LL MOVE / ON OVER YOU]. There is an inscription in pencil on the back of the poster.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1966
- Distributed by: Lowndes County Freedom Organization, American, founded 1965
- Designed by: Unidentified
- Printed by: Unidentified
- Type: posters
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 16 15/16 × 11 in. (43 × 28 cm)
- Place used: Lowndes County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Black power
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Political organizations
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: Race discrimination
- Object number: 2016.90.1
- 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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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: No Known Copyright Restrictions Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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