Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Build Jobs Not Jails
October 16, 1995
National Mall, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
This black-and-white photograph depicts a man wearing a sandwich style handmade cardboard sign that says " BUILD / JOBS, / NOT / JAILS!!" The man, with a full mustache, is wearing a knitted cap. He faces the viewer but gazes slightly to the left.
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Catalog reference: 2013.99.51
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