Object number:
2010.54.12122
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
Bicentennial Blues: America's 200th Anniversary
Maker:
Macheweo Aweusi, Alli Macheweo
Date made:
circa 1975
Material/Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 22 in, W: 17 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
Poster
Content description:
Poster consists of black print on white paper. The images on the right side depicts a line drawing of a human face in profile with two large teardrops on it and a man in 1970's clothing strangled by a giant necktie. The middle and left side of the poster is a 19 stanza poem about the history and current day status of African Americans entitled "Bicentennial Blues / America's 200th Anniversary.
Concepts:
tear drop; necktie; Human Rights; bicentennial; African American; male
Places:
United States of America
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