Poster for voter registration made by the NAACP: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An NAACP poster, black and red ink on white cardboard, advocating voter registration to: "Stop / Goldwater, Wallace, and the Klu [sic] Klux Klan / Now". Included on the poster is a list of registration locations and a notice that the poster was created by the New York branch of the NAACP Youth Council.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1964
• Created by: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
• Subject of: George Wallace, American, 1919 - 1998
• Subject of: Barry Morris Goldwater, American, 1909 - 1998
• Subject of: Ku Klux Klan, 3rd, American, founded 1946
• Type: political posters
• Medium: colored ink on cardboard
• Dimensions: H x W: 14 x 22 in. (35.6 x 55.9 cm)
• Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Suffrage
• Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
• Topic: White supremacy movements
• Object number: 2011.10.1
• 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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