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Red wool scarf worn by Joan Mulholland during a protest near the White House

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This dark red wool scarf was worn by Joan Mulholland during a Howard University Nonviolent Action Group protest near the White House in 1960. The rectangular scarf is made from a twill-woven fulled wool and has self fringe on each end that is approximately 2 1/2 inches long.
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Wool
Rights:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Trumpauer-Mulholland Collection
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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. Activism
  2. African American
  3. African Americans
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Clothing And Dress
  6. Cvil Rights
  7. Local And Regional
  8. Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer
  9. Politics
  10. U.S. History, 1953 1961

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