- On View
- Segregation Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Manufactured by
- O.F. Mossberg & Sons, founded 1919
- Owned by
- Robertson, Willie
- Subject of
- Deacons for Defense and Justice, American, founded 1964
- Date
- 1969-1971
- Medium
- steel, wood, rubber
- Dimensions
- Overall with Weight: 7 1/2 x 47 5/8 x 2 1/4 in., 8 lb. (19.1 x 121 x 5.7 cm, 3.6 kg)
- Description
- Wood and hardened steel 20 gauge pump-action shotgun, O.F. Mossberg& Sons model 500C. Pump-action on shotgun is made of wood and has a grip with cut ridges. Shotgun has wood stock with a rubber end. Rubber end appears to have been painted red or orange at one point. Etched into metal near magazine loading port is, [Mossberg/MADE IN USA/NORTH HAVEN, CONN./500C 20 GA]. Serial number etched into metal near shotgun's trigger reads, [B07018]. 28 high modified choke
- Place used
- Bogalusa, Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
- Place made
- North Haven, North Haven County, Connecticut, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Weapons and Ammunition
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Black Power (Black Pride)
- Type
- shotguns
- Topic
- Activism
- Associations and institutions
- Black power
- Civil rights
- Justice
- Resistance
- Segregation
- U.S. History, 1969-2001
- Violence
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Barbara Hicks-Collins in memory of father, Robert "Bob" Hicks; Aunt, Grace Hicks-Berry; sister, Valeria Hicks-Smith and in honor of mother, Valeria Payton-Hicks and women of the Bogalusa Civil Rights Movement
- Object number
- 2014.60.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




