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Allied Printing Trades Council Honor King, End Racism

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06125 Author/Creator: Allied Printing Trades Council Place Written: Memphis, Tennessee Type: Broadside Date: 8 April 1968 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 54.5 cm, Width: 35.2 cm Order a Copy PDF Download(s):

Large black letters printed on white posterboard state "HONOR KING: END RACISM!" Contains strings intended to suspend the poster from a marcher's neck. Poster designed for a march on April 8, 1968, 4 days after Martin Luther King's Jr.'s assassination. Printed by Allied Printing. (See GLC09739.049 for image of marchers carrying this sign).

Allied Printing, fl. 1968
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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