Plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
- X, Malcolm, American, 1925 - 1965
- Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil paint and ink on plywood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 75 × 48 × 1/2 in. (190.5 × 121.9 × 1.3 cm)
- Description
- Eleventh (11) of twelve (12) painted plywood panels from the Resurrection City mural that was created and displayed in the encampment on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 1968. Depicted on this panel is a variety of text painted in green, red, and yellow paint, including "MY LORD / MY SAVIOR / MARTIN LUTHER KING", "Freedom or Death", "Malcolm" and "KANO." Some phrases and sentences are split between this panel and the panels to its left and right, including text in green paint: "POVERTY'S/ CHILD [line] / SMALL HOUSE / NO WORK FOR MY FAMILY / BORN TO THIS FOODLESS FATE / I WOULD TELL YOU WITH WORDS / THAT I'M DYING / BUT NOTHIN'S LEFT TO ME / NOT EVEN CRYING". This segment is from the lower right corner, second from the right.
- Place used
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- African American - Latinx Solidarity
- Poor People's Campaign
- Type
- mural paintings
- Topic
- Activism
- Art
- Black geographies
- Black power
- Freedom
- Justice
- Local and regional
- Men
- Poverty
- Race relations
- Resistance
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Women
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Vincent DeForest
- Object number
- 2012.110.11
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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