Gail Anderson on Marian Wright Edelman

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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.

This is a poster designed by Gail Anderson with a quote by Marian Wright Edelman. This poster has a white background with black text and graphics. The poster depicts two large hands, one descending from the top margin and pointing down and one emerging from the poster’s bottom margin and pointing up. Both hands are pointing with its index finger and have the other fingers folded down against the palm. The hands are attached to wrists that are wearing white buttoned cuffs under dark sleeves. In the poster’s upper left quadrant is large text in block letters that reads “A Lot of People / Are Waiting / For MARTIN / LUTHER KING / or MAHATMA / GANDHI / To Come Back- / But / They Are / GONE.” In the lower right quadrant this text continues “WE / ARE IT. / IT IS UP / TO US. / IT IS UP / TO YOU.

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