- On View
- 1968 & Beyond Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Guevara, Che, Argentine, 1928 - 1967
- Zapata, Emiliano, Mexican, 1879 - 1919
- Villa, Pancho, Mexican, 1878 - 1923
- Murrieta, Joaquin, Mexican, c. 1829 - c. 1853
- 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
- Fourth (4) 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 the left, in green, red, and brown paint. In the upper right corner is the phrase "LET'S GET / HUMAN UNDERSTANDING" in red ink, in a mixture of upper and lower case letters. Across the rest of the panel are the phrases "UOP + UCLA", "VIVA CHE", "the New Breed", and the names of Mexican revolutionaries "PANCHO VILLA", "MURRIETA" and "ZAPATA." This segment is the upper right corner panel.
- 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
- 2012.110.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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