- On View
- 1968 & Beyond Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil paint and ink on plywood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 48 x 96 x 1/2 in. (121.9 x 243.8 x 1.3 cm)
- Description
- Third (3) 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 continuation of text from the panel to its left, in green, red, yellow and black paint, including "Cuba Libre" and the beginning of the phrase "CHICANO POWER." Along the top edge of this panel is text in green paint. The complete phrase is: "TELL IT LIKE IT IS." The majority of the phrase is on this panel, although the text starts on the panel on the left and finishes on the panel on the right. Other text includes "Latin LOVERS", "LET'S GET LOVE" and "LATINO AMERICA." This segment is from the upper row of panels, 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 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
- 2012.110.3
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




