Poster, SCLC Poor People's Campaign, 1968
Object Details
- associated institution
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Description
- Is freedom from want the right of all Americans? What responsibility does the nation have to provide employment to its citizens? In response to economic crisis, at times the government has enacted massive employment programs. One such program, the Works Progress Administration, employed as many as eight million people during the depression of the 1930s. Federal legislation enacted in 1964 led to the establishment of the Office of Economic Opportunity as part of the “War on Poverty.”
- Credit Line
- Clara Watkins
- associated date
- 1968
- 1965
- ID Number
- PL.279881.3.a
- catalog number
- 279881.3.a
- accession number
- 279881
- Object Name
- Poster
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- blue (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 1/4 in x 17 in; 59.055 cm x 43.18 cm
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Work
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- Exhibition
- American Democracy
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- general subject association
- History, Reform Movements, Black, Civil Rights
- used
- Protest
- general subject association
- History, Reform Movements, Economic Protest
- related event
- Poor People's Campaign
- Record ID
- nmah_541187
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-97ff-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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