- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- National Liberation Front, active 1954 - 1976
- Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil paint and ink on plywood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 75 x 48 x 1/2 in. (190.5 x 121.9 x 1.3 cm)
- Description
- Fifth (5) 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 text in yellow, red, and black paint, including phrases "Guerilla!", "love the Viet Cong", "BLACK THAT'S IT", "Ask it / SHALL / BE GIVE.", "Simba!" and "UHURU." This segment is the lower left corner panel, and the beginning of the series of eight (8) panels that form the lower portion of the Hunger Wall.
- 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
- 2012.110.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




