Sign from Women's March on Washington with "When They Go Low We Go High": Museum Object and Cultural History
Sign from Women's March on Washington with "When They Go Low We Go High": Date: 2017. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: First Lady Michelle Obama, American, born 1964.
The object in the museum catalogue
Hand drawn poster from the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. The paper has a design of snow-capped mountains with a blue sky. Black text along the mountain edges reads [WHEN / THEY / GO / LOW / WE / GO / HIGH], rising from the lower left corner to the upper right corner. The back side is blank.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2017
- Created by: Unidentified
- Subject of: First Lady Michelle Obama, American, born 1964
- Subject of: Women's March, American, founded 2017
- Type: posters
- Medium: card stock, markers, crayons
- Dimensions: H x W: 14 × 21 15/16 in. (35.6 × 55.7 cm)
- Place used: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Feminism
- Topic: Local and regional
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: Resistance
- Topic: Women
- Object number: 2017.85.8
- 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: Unknown - Restrictions Possible Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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