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Photo, Print, Drawing Abolition requires that we change one thing which is everything

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Title

  • Abolition requires that we change one thing which is everything

Created / Published

  • [2020 or 2021]

Headings

  • -  African Americans--Civil rights--2020-2030
  • -  Black lives matter movement--2020-2030
  • -  Police brutality--2020-2030

Format Headings

  • Drawings--Color--2020-2030.
  • Memorial works--2020-2030.
  • Protest posters--2020-2030.

Genre

  • Memorial works--2020-2030
  • Protest posters--2020-2030
  • Drawings--Color--2020-2030

Notes

  • -  Title transcribed from item.
  • -  Message on verso: "Abolition is not an absence, it is a presence."
  • -  Poster was removed from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, an installation of protest art attached to a chain link fence outside of the White House, Washington, D.C, from June 2020 through January 2021, responding to the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and other instances of police brutality against African Americans; other issues addressed by posters on the fence include institutional injustices, political protest, frustration and mourning related to COVID-19, and international solidarity.
  • -  Forms part of: [Posters from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence in Washington, D.C.].
  • -  Gift; Nadine Seiler & Karen Irwin on behalf of the BLM community; 2021; (DLC/PP-2021:011).

Medium

  • 1 drawing : marker on corrugated plastic board ; sheet 31 x 36 cm (poster format)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 15471, no. 2 (H) [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2022632921

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-77601 (digital file from original, front) LC-DIG-ppmsca-77632 (digital file from original, back)

Rights Advisory

  • The collection donors have made this collection material available for educational use. The collection materials should not be used for commercial activities and derivative works should not be made. (Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND)

Access Advisory

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  • Rights Advisory: The collection donors have made this collection material available for educational use. The collection materials should not be used for commercial activities and derivative works should not be made. (Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND)
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-77601 (digital file from original, front) LC-DIG-ppmsca-77632 (digital file from original, back)
  • Call Number: LOT 15471, no. 2 (H) [P&P]
  • Access Advisory: Served only by appointment because the material requires special handling. For more information, see: Materials Designated "Served by Appointment Only," https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html

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Abolition Requires That We Change One Thing Which Is Everything. , 2020. [or 2021] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2022632921/.

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Abolition Requires That We Change One Thing Which Is Everything. [or 2021] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2022632921/>.