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STRIKE! (We Demand...)

Poster
1970 (made)
Artist/Maker
Labor Movement, New England Free Press (publishers)
Place of origin
United States (made)

Black type throughout on white paper. Small illustration in the upper right corner of a black man's face, his mouth gagged. This drawing reprsents Black Panther Bobby Seale. Small central illustration of a kneeling woman with outstretched arms, mouring a dead body.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Propaganda
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleSTRIKE! (We Demand...) (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Offset lithograph
Paper
Ink
Offset Lithography
Brief description
STRIKE! Anti-Vietnam war and anti-government student protest poster. USA, 1970.
Physical description
Black type throughout on white paper. Small illustration in the upper right corner of a black man's face, his mouth gagged. This drawing reprsents Black Panther Bobby Seale. Small central illustration of a kneeling woman with outstretched arms, mouring a dead body.
Dimensions
  • Height: 43.4cm
  • Width: 27.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • We demand: 1 That the United/ States government/ end its systematic/ oppression of political dissidents and/ release all political prisoners,/ such as Bobby Seale/ and other members of the Black Panther Party 2 That the/ United States/ government cease/ its escalation of/ the Vietnam war/ into Cambodia and Laos;/ that it unilaterally and/ immediately withdraw all/ forces from Southeast Asia 3 That the universities end their complicity/ with the United States war machine by the immediate/ end to defense research, ROTC, counterinsurgency research,/ and all otehr such programs.
  • STRIKE!
  • YLS [Yale Law School]/ 5/15/70 (written in pencil in lower right corner)
Credit line
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Production
posted at Yale Law School
Subjects depicted
Politics
Propaganda
Protest
Man
Woman
Corpse
Seale, Bobby
Civil Rights Movement
Place depicted
United States
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1455-2004

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Record createdAugust 12, 2004
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O101716/strike-we-demand-poster-labor-movement-new/
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