The East Village Other, Volume 5, Number 6: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The East Village Other newspaper, volume 5, number 6 from January 14, 1970. The front cover features a large, stylized depiction of a silhouette of a church window in green. In the bottom half of the cover is a cropped, black and white photograph of a man holding a small child. Both have one arm raised in a fist. The man wears a Young Lords pinback button on his hat. At the top, above the church window, is the mast head in a gradient from yellow to green that reads: [THE / east / village / OTHER / VOLUME 5 NUMBER 4 JANUARY 14, 1970 METROPOLITAN 15¢ NATIONAL 35¢]. The paper has twenty-three pages.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: January 14, 1970
• Published by: Walter Howard Boward, American, 1939 - 2007
• Subject of: The East Village Other, American, 1965 - 1972
• Subject of: Young Lords Party, American, founded 1969
• Type: newspapers
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 17 11/16 × 11 9/16 in. (44.9 × 29.4 cm)
• Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Cultural Place: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
• Object number: 2014.109.7.12
• 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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