T-shirt for "Fair Fight U" from Fair Fight Action: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A cotton white Fair Fight Action “Fair Fight U” t-shirt by Bayside Apparel.

This t-shirt features large purple and black ink press on the front and back. The front of the t-shirt depicts a ‘U’ colored purple with black bordering. The Fair Fight ballot logo is printed in white ink on a black background across the ‘U’. On the back of the t-shirt in purple ink is a quote by Stacey Abrams [Junior, Spelman College / 30th Anniversary of the / March on Washington (1993)]: [“I come to you as a / young person, to ask you / to use us, use the / young people of the / United States of / America to pave a road / that will last forever.”].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 2017-2019
• Created by: Fair Fight Action, American, founded 2018
• Manufactured by: Bayside Apparel & Headwear, American
• Subject of: Stacey Y. Abrams, American, born 1973
• Type: T-shirts
• Medium: ink on cotton (textile)
• Dimensions: L x W: 24 7/16 × 32 5/16 in. (62 × 82 cm)
• Place collected: Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Clothing and dress
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Fashion
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Suffrage
• Object number: 2021.7.6
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Courtesy of Stacey Y. Abrams
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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