Object Details
- Description
- Urban Magazine, March 1969 featuring a large black and white image of Major Lavell Merritt, seen from the chest up. Merritt wears an army uniform with the branch insignia on his PL collar. Merritt wears dark, thick rimmed glasses and looks into the camera. In the lower left quadrant of the image is a mushroom cloud with black text inside [BLACK/MAJOR/BLAST/U.S. ARMY]. The image is bordered in white and is on a black background. At the top fourth, is the magazine title [URBAN/MAGAZINE]. To the right of the magazine title is a black and white illustration of an owl with black text below ["WE PRINT NEWS/NOT HISTORY"]. The owl is contained within a white rectangle. Along the bottom, in white, is the date and price [March 1969 25 ¢].
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Published by
- Urban Magazine Corporation of America, American
- Subject of
- Major Lavell Merritt, American, born 1928
- Owned by
- Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
- Date
- 1969
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- paper, ink, metal
- Dimensions
- H x W: 11 1/16 × 8 1/2 × 1/8 in. (28.1 × 21.6 × 0.3 cm)
- Type
- magazines (periodicals)
