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Shirley Chisholm and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Artist: Johanna Vogelsang, 18 Jun 1929 - 1 Dec 2011
Former attribution: Kate Millett, 14 Sep 1934 - 6 Sep 2017
Sitter: Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, 30 Nov 1924 - 1 Jan 2005; Martin Luther King, Jr., 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968

Date: c. 1975

Type: Print

Medium: Screenprint on paper
Dimensions: Image (accurate): 59 × 40.5 cm (23 1/4 × 15 15/16"); Sheet (accurate): 63.5 × 45.7 cm (25 × 18")

Topic: Costume\Jewelry\Necklace; Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses; Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache; Poster; Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: Female; Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: Politics and Government\State Legislator\New York; Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: Politics and Government\Presidential candidate; Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: Education and Scholarship\Educator; Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer; Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Professor\University; Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: Politics and Government\US Congressman\New York; Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: Education and Scholarship\Administrator\School administrator; Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: Presidential Medal of Freedom; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Male; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Activist\Civil rights activist\Civil rights leader; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Religion and Spirituality\Clergy\Minister; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nobel Prize; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Presidential Medal of Freedom; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Congressional Gold Medal; Portrait

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Restrictions & Rights: Usage conditions apply

Object number: NPG.93.26

Data Source: National Portrait Gallery