Declarations: The Unfinished Work of Democracy

We Mutually Pledge to Each Other (Panel Image)
WE MUTUALLY PLEDGE TO EACH OTHER

  1. Volunteers clean up Seacliff State Beach following extensive storm damage in February 2023.
    Baer, Brian. Seacliff State Beach. 2023. Photograph. California State Parks.
  2. American Red Cross members meet with a man in a shop.
    Adams, Harry. Red Cross, Los Angeles, 1964. January 1964. Digital Photograph from a B&W Negative. Special Collections and Archives, Tom & Ethel Bradley Center. California State University, Northridge.

    https://digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collection/Bradley/id/7687
Consent of the Governed (Panel)
CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED

  1. People participate in a voter registration drive in Northern California, circa 1972.
    Woman Registering Man to Vote. c. 1972. Photograph. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region 1 Photograph Collection. UC Berkeley Library Digital Collections.

    https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/55238?v=uv
  2. An “I Voted” sticker rests on red fabric.
    Jlmcanally. I Voted Sticker on Red Fabric. Photograph. Adobe Stock.

    https://stock.adobe.com/images/i-voted-sticker-on-red-fabric/125868092
Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (panel)
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

  1. Two mothers hold and kiss a smiling baby with outstretched arms.
    Cavan Images. Loving Moms Holding Smiling Baby with Outstretched Arms. Photograph. Adobe Stock.

    https://stock.adobe.com/images/loving-moms-holding-smiling-baby-with-outstretched-arms/317782512
  2. Thomas Morales and Skylar Beasley participate in the 2022 Tule Boat Launch led by members of Kumeyaay Community College in San Diego County.
    Lipin, Howard. Tule Boat Launch. August 27, 2022. Photograph. The San Diego Union-Tribune Archives. Getty Images.

    https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/thomas-morales-center-left-of-la-mesa-and-skylar-beasley-news-photo/2267707614
Created Equal (panel)
CREATED EQUAL

  1. Marching farmworkers arrive in Sacramento.
    Marchers Arriving in Sacramento. Courtesy of the Ernest Lowe Photographs Collection, 1958–2020 (RA-0007). UC Merced Library Archives & Special Collections.

    https://calisphere.org/item/0ec0b707-6411-4fc8-a96d-fed31525d0bb/
  2. A pinback button displays a red Women’s Rights Movement symbol on a white background.
    Women’s Liberation. Busy Beaver Button Museum. Chicago, Illinois.

    https://buttonmuseum.org/buttons/womens-liberation