Flyer advertising a demonstration in solidarity with Zimbabwean liberation: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This flyer announces a demonstration in support of the armed struggle for liberation in Zimbabwe. The flyer is white with black text and features an illustration of an armed Zimbabwean fighter on the left. The flyer has begun to brown with age. The top of the flyer reads: [SOLIDARITY WITH THE ARMED / LIBERATION STRUGGLE / IN ZIMBABWE]. Logistical information is given at the bottom of the flyer and reads: [DEMONSTRATE: 5:00-6:30 / MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22 / MOBIL BUILDING: 42nd & LEXINGTON / MOBIL IS A PRINCIPAL BACKER OF THE RACIST SMITH REGIME IN "RHODESIA"]. The sponsors for the event are listed at the very bottom in significantly smaller font: [ Liberation Support Movement, LEMPA, International Socialists, Prairie / Fire Organizing Committee, NICH, Attica Now, Guardian, Revolutionary Marxist Organizing Committee, / ZANU Support Committee, Friends of Indochina, Liberation Book Store, City Star, Puerto Rican Socialist / Party Federation of Puerto Rican Socialist University Students]. The back of the flyer includes information about the liberation and solidarity movements and more information about the demonstration. In the bottom right corner, handwritten text reads [1976].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1976
• Created by: ZANU Solidarity Committee, American
• Created by: The National Guardian, American, 1948 - 1992
• Subject of: Zimbabwe People's Army, Zimbabwean, founded 1975
• Subject of: Henry Alfred Kissinger, German American, born 1923
• Subject of: Attica Now!, American, 1971 - 1975
• Created by: Puerto Rican Socialist Party, Puerto Rican, 1959 - 1993
• 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: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Zimbabwe, Africa
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Africa
• Topic: Black power
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
• Object number: 2015.97.27.53
• 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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