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Placard from memorial march reading "HONOR KING: END RACISM!"

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Description

A placard comprised of black ink on white (yellowing) card stock. Text reads [HONOR/ KING: / END/ RACISM!]. There is a small hole at the top where the placard would have been stapled to wood and carried. The back has a series of handwritten numbers on the top center edge.
Format:
Ink On Paper
Rights:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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National Museum of African American History and Culture

Record Harvested From

Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. Activism
  2. African American
  3. African Americans
  4. Allied Printing Trades Council
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Cvil Rights
  7. Hate Crimes
  8. King, Martin Luther
  9. U.S. History, 1961 1969

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