T-shirt from Stacey Abrams 2018 gubernatorial campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A navy-blue American Apparel / Gildan cotton t-shirt, “Stacey Abrams Governor”, for Stacey Abrams’s 2018 Gubernatorial campaign.

This primarily navy-blue shirt features large graphics on the front. A ROYGBIV rainbow is depicted across the chest above the black ink print of “STACEY / ABRAMS”. The word “GOVERNER” is printed in the rainbow colors below “Abrams” and above tiny black print of a list of Georgia 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidates and activists: Stacey Abrams, Sarah Riggs Amico, Charlie Bailey and John Barrow – Delivering for Georgia]. There is no print on the reverse of the t-shirt.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2018
• Issued by: Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018
• Subject of: Stacey Y. Abrams, American, born 1973
• Manufactured by: American Apparel, American, founded 1989
• Type: T-shirts
• Medium: ink on cotton (textile)
• Dimensions: L x W: 26 1/4 × 18 7/8 in. (66.7 × 48 cm)
• Place collected: Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Suffrage
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2021.6.22
• 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

Sources and reuse

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: © Stacey Abrams for Governor Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.