Memorial poster for Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Object Details

Created by

Edie Brown Eisenberg, American, 1920 - 2012

Subject of

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968

Description

This screen print, printing ink on paper, poster memorializes Martin Luther King, Jr. [MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. 1929 1968 / HE DIED TO MAKE MEN FREE] is printed over red and white stripes, resembling the American flag, in the middle, right of the poster. A dark blue image of King, in the upper left of the poster, has an excerpt of King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 on top of it. The text reads: [The question is not whether we will be extremist~ but what kind of extremist we will be~ / Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for LOVE? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or ~ will we be extremists for the cause of justice?]. The bottom of the poster has a portion of King’s I Have a Dream speech [I HAVE A DREAM / THAT MY FOUR CHILDREN WILL ONE DAY LIVE IN A NATION WHERE THEY WILL NOT BE JUDGED BY THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN BUT BY THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTERS / LITTLE BLACK BOYS & LITTLE BLACK GIRLS WILL BE ABLE TO HOLD HANDS WITH LITTLE WHITE BOYS & LITTLE WHITE GIRLS AS BROTHERS & SISTERS]. Below the text is a drawing of children holding hands. The lower right corner has [Edie Brown Eisenberg 1968 ©].

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Date

1968

Object number

2010.59.7

Restrictions & Rights

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Type

screen prints

posters

Medium

printing ink on paper (fiber product)

Dimensions

H x W: 30 × 40 3/16 in. (76.2 × 102.1 cm)

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification

Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera

Movement

Civil Rights Movement

Data Source

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic

African American

Civil Rights

Race relations

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5e5aa223a-e689-4666-ba78-d153c86372cd

Record ID

nmaahc_2010.59.7