Abstract

In February 2016 the Fashion Praxis Lab, a loosely connected research lab of scholars across The New School, Parsons, and beyond, began work on a flag to draw attention to the plight of garment workers in developing economies. The flag references one that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) used to fly from their Fifth Avenue window in the 1920s and 1930s each time the news broke that a man had been lynched, reading "A Man Was Lynched Yesterday." The NAACP had their office a block north of where Parsons is today, and on a famous photo of the flag, the central buildings of Parsons can be clearly seen in the background. Several faculty and students from The New School contributed to the flag during spring 2016.

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