Political signs that performed their function at rallies and were shared on social media around the world became part of history.
Source: Gillian Laub/The Cut
Thousands of women across the US will take to streets for the 2018 Women’s March on Saturday, the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration. Last year, the event sparked mass rallies to support feminism and struggle for equal rights for women, migrants, LGBTQ+ communities and other groups.
It was the idea of Lisa Kathleen Graddy, a curator in the Division of Political History at the National Museum of American History, to collect signs after the protests, when streets and parks were full of posters doomed to become rubbish. This year, she and her colleagues are going to collect political messages and signs too.
She told the Cut: “The museum has a long history, stretching back to the March on Washington, of collecting materials from protests, and rallies, and marches, and those occasions when citizens get together to make their voices heard, and exercise their first amendment rights.”
The Cut selected the most interesting posters from last year’s Women’s March. Check them out here.
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