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Poster with "End White Supremacy" used in the Unite the Right counter-protest

August 12, 2017

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A mass produced poster with the logo "End White Supremacy," distributed by the Democratic Socialists of America and used during the Charlottesville, Virginia counter-protest to the Unite the Right rally on August 12, 2017. The poster is white with a large, central black, red, and white graphic. The graphic is of a black piece of earth with a rose growing from left side. Black and white text printed above the over the graphic reads [end / white / supremacy]. The words "white" and "supremacy" are accented with black barbed wire graphics. The root of the rose extends from a piece of barbed wire in the "w" of the word "white." In the bottom right corner of the poster is the red, black, and white rose logo of the Democratic Socialists of America next to black text in varying sizes and fonts that read [DSA [underlined] / Democratic Socialists of America / dsausa.org].

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Catalog reference: 2018.42.5

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