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My role has been important in the struggle to organize the unorganized

1947; printed 1989

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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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.

Black and white linocut of an unidentified group of workers. The group consists of four men with one woman who is standing in the center. She has one arm raised in a fist above her head. Two men are facing the woman with their backs visible. The man on the left is holding a flier which reads [JOIN] at the top. The man to the right, wearing a flat cap, is resting a hand on another man's shoulder. The man in the back left, also wearing a flat cap, is looking to the right and has one arm raised. On the right in the background is a building with two smokestacks. The title is handwritten in graphite below the image and the work is signed. The reverse is blank.

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2017.21.9

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