Object Details
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese, 1893 - 1976
- Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
- Description
- Eighth (8) 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. On this panel is a variety of text painted in red, brown, yellow and black, including "BROTHER MAO", "BLACK!! OR WHAT", "Inkster", "Pax", "the MEEK shall inherit the EARTH when they stop BEING MEEK" and incomplete portions of the phrase "Black WOMEN!!!", "PUERTO RICO" and "Join the Black Liberation Front." This segment is from the lower center, fourth from the left.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Vincent DeForest
- 1968
- Object number
- 2012.110.8
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- mural paintings
- 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)
- Place used
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Movement
- African American - Latinx Solidarity
- Poor People's Campaign
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Art
- Black geographies
- Black power
- Freedom
- Justice
- Local and regional
- Men
- Poverty
- Race relations
- Resistance
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Women
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2012.110.8
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd53e22a2d1-d2cd-4a45-9c34-168cfc066b55
