Young Lords Party: Health, Food, Housing, Education: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A Young Lords Party poster. The poster has a black background with white text and a graphic of four purple automatic rifles. Across the top center of the poster, white text reads: [Young Lords Party]. Below the text, the four purple automatic rifles are pictured in a vertical stack. The rifles are oriented horizontally and each rifle has text, in white, across the forestock reading [Health] on the top rifle, [Food] on the second, [Housing] on the third, and [Education] on the bottom. The word [Struggle] is featured in gray text on the magazine of each rifle. In the top right corner of the poster is a logo for the Young Lords Party. The logo is a circle with the Puerto Rican flag in the background and an automatic rifle at center. The letters [YLP] are across the bottom of the logo. The back of the poster is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1971
• Created by: Young Lords Party, American, founded 1969
• Designed by: Unidentified
• Type: political posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 28 × 17 3/4 in. (71.1 × 45.1 cm)
• Place printed: 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: Communities
• Topic: Design
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Graphic design
• Topic: Health
• Topic: Housing
• Object number: 2018.35.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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