Flyer advertising a donation drive to support African Freedom Fighters: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This flyer advertises a donation drive to support African Freedom Fighters to students and faculty at Brooklyn College. The flyer is yellow with black text and features an illustration of a figure standing with a book held aloft in his raised proper right hand and a rifle in the other hand. The top of the flyer reads: [SUPPORT AFRICAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS]. Large block letters in the center of the flyer read: [MATERIAL / AID WEEK]. Text inside of a box below the illustration reads: [AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY / MAY 28, Washington, D.C. / JOIN THE / SOWETO / CONTINGENT / Join the Soweto Contingent of youth and / students for the African Liberation Day / March on May 28th in Washington, D.C. / BUS TICKETS AVAILABLE - 284-2514]. The back of the flyer discusses union elections of the United Workers Organization.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: May 1977
• Created by: Revolutionary Student Brigade, American, 1974 - 1980
• Subject of: Zimbabwe African National Union, Zimbabwean, 1963 - 1987
• Subject of: National United Workers Organization, American, founded 1977
• 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: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Zimbabwe, Africa
• Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: South Africa, Africa
• Place depicted: Namibia, Africa
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Africa
• Topic: Black power
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Local and regional
• Object number: 2015.97.27.42
• 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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