Heroes
- Title:
- Heroes
- Collection:
- Obama Visual Iconography
- Date:
- ca. 2008-11 to 2009-01
- Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- Obama_046
- Collection Number:
- 6828
- File Name:
- Obama_046.tif
- Culture:
- American
- Work Type:
- political posters
- Materials/Techniques:
- photomontages
- Subject:
- Obama, Barack
Presidents--United States--Election--2008
Presidents--United States--Inauguration
African Americans--Civil rights
Blacks--Civil rights - Description:
- Poster created on the occasion of the 2009 January 20 Inauguration of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America, consisting of a photomontage of images of black leaders and symbols of courage and freedom: Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Bob Marley, Marcus Garvey, Muhammad Ali, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing the crowd; the American flag, the Statue of Liberty, a lion, and the eagle on the presidential seal. Below is the caption "Heroes."
- Cite As:
- Barack Obama presidential campaign and inauguration collection, #6828. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Barack Obama presidential campaign and inauguration collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The Cornell University Library has made a reasonable effort to identify all possible rights holders in this image, but in this case, the current rights holders remain unknown. The Library has elected to place the item online as an exercise of fair use for non-commercial educational use. If would like to learn more about this item and to hear from individuals or institutions that have any additional information as to rights holders: contact rareref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.