A “Motherhood is a choice” sign behind a child sitting in a stroller near other older children.

Legalize Abortion Rally, Rockefeller Center, New York, March 24, 1968

Artist Bev Grant (American, born 1942)

Date1968

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensionsimage: 9 × 6 in. (22.9 × 15.2 cm)
sheet: 9 15/16 × 8 in. (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

ClassificationPhotograph

Credit LineMary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, purchase funds provided by Diane Solomon

Object number2023.4.3

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Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and Feminist Activism, 1968-72

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Bev Grant

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2 Black boys in a doorway beneath an iconic photo of Huey Newton.

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