Poster for Five on the Black Hand Side: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This poster features a color illustration of a crowd of people with a man in a suit and bowler hat striding through the center. He wears a grey three piece suit, striped tie, spats, and a brown bowler hat. he carries a briefcase in his left hand and a furled umbrella in his right. He has a cigar in his mouth. He is striding through the crowd around him from right to left. Surrounding him is a crowd of men and women engaged in a variety of activities. The woman to his immediate left holds a placard on a stick with text that reads "We / don't dig / the / Chauvinist / Pig!" She wears a green army helmet, and army jacket, a patterned dress, mules, and large hoop earrings. her left first is raised in the air. At the top margin of the poster is text in black ink that reads "You've been coffy-tized, blacula-rized and super-flied - but / now you’re gonna be glorified, unified and filled-with-pride.../ when you see." Below the man's feet is text in red ink that reads "FIVE / ON THE / BLACK HAND SIDE." Along the bottom is printed the cast and production credits with a logo for United Artists at the bottom right corner.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1973
• Issued by: United Artists Corporation, founded 1919
• Illustrated by: John Burton Davis Jr., American, 1924 - 2016
• Subject of: Brock Peters, American, 1927 - 2005
• Subject of: Leonard Jackson, American, born 1928
• Subject of: Virginia Capers, American, 1925 - 2004
• Subject of: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011
• Subject of: Glynn Turman, American, born 1947
• Subject of: D'Urville Martin
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper on cardboard
• Dimensions: H x W: 39 15/16 × 27 3/16 in. (101.5 × 69 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Blaxploitation films
• Topic: Comedy
• Topic: Film
• Object number: 2013.188.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of William and James Thomas and family in memory of Clarice Taylor
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: Copyright © United Artists Corporation and The Five Hand Company MCMLXXIII (1978) Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.