Flier advertising an Anti-Facism Rally: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A flier advertising an anti-fascism rally. The flier is white with black typewritten text and features a black-and-white picture of Joan Bird after she was beaten by police. The flier reads [CAPITALISM + RACISM = FASCISM / COME AND HEAR / David Hilliard / Chief of Staff BPP / Ray Maasai Hewitt / Central Committee BPP / Cha Cha Jimenez / Chairman of Young Lords / Mark Rudd SDS / Hannibal Thomas Harlem 5 / Arthur Turco Attorney / Citywide Welfare Rights Groups / FREE THE PANTHERS / FREE FOOD / BAR-B-Q / POTATO SALAD / PUNCH / ENTERTAINMENT / POETRY--MUSIC--DANCERS / SUNDAY JUNE 15th 1:00PM / MOUNT MORRIS PARK, 5th AVE and 124nd ST. / FREE!!! NO CHARGE!!! FREE!!!]. The caption under the photograph reads [JOAN BIRD, BRUTALIZED AND ORTURED BY THE PIGS / AT THE TIME OF HER ARREST / Fascism will breed nothing but more fascism / unless the people are organized in one united / front. / The people and the people alone are the / motive force in the making of world history.] The back of the flier is blank except for the stamp that reads [JUN 1968].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Joan Bird, American, born 1949
• Subject of: David Hilliard, American, born 1942
• Subject of: José Jiménez, Puerto Rican, 1948 - 2025
• Subject of: Raymond Masai Hewitt, American, 1942 - 1988
• Subject of: Mark Rudd, American, born 1947
• Subject of: Hannibal Thomas, American, born 1947
• Subject of: Arthur F. Turco Jr., American, born 1943
• Type: fliers (printed matter)
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
• Place used: Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Cultural Place: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Black power
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Foodways
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Poetry
• Object number: 2015.97.27.211
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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