Poster, SCLC Poor People's Campaign, 1968
Poster, SCLC Poor People's Campaign, 1968
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- 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.”
- Object Name
- Poster
- associated date
- 1968
- 1965
- associated institution
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- 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
- ID Number
- PL.279881.3.a
- catalog number
- 279881.3.a
- accession number
- 279881
- Credit Line
- Clara Watkins
- subject
- History, Reform Movements, Black, Civil Rights
- Protest
- History, Reform Movements, Economic Protest
- Poor People's Campaign
- See more items in
- Political and Military 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
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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