2010.54.12193

Langston Hughes

So We Sit Here On The Edge Of Hell

1978

18 in HIGH x 23 in WIDE
(45.72 cm HIGH x 58.42 cm WIDE)

All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.

2010.54.12193

inscription: Bottom left corner has "National Labor Federation / 200 West 20th Street, New York, New York 10011" and bottom right corner has "Labor Donated / Quotations from Langston Hughes and from the traditional song, "Move On Over". There is a printed artist''s signature in white of "Van Howell / 1978 for the / National Labor Foundation" in the bottom right corner of the image.

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This horizontally-oriented poster is filled with a print of a gray and white illustration of 3 African Americans sitting in a room. Two are seated in the foreground and one in the background is sleeping on a bed. The person in the foreground on the left holds her head in her hand and has a blanket over her lap. Text in the upper left corner of the image reads "So We Sit Here / On The Edge Of Hell / And Wonder / What To Do / In The Face / Of What We / Remember." After a small space, smaller text continues below with "And With Every / Bid For Freedom / Someone / Whispers / To Us / ''Wait''".

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