Poster in support of the Black Liberation Struggle: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black, red, white, and green poster in support of the Black Liberation Struggle and prisoners’ rights movement. The poster has a black background with [ATTICA] in large red letters at the top. At center, to the right, are black-and-white images including a portrait of “Soledad Brother” George Jackson and two scenes of protesters marching. On the left side of the poster in white print is a list of prisons that were sites of prisoner-led protests: [SAN / QUENTIN-SOLEDAD / THE TOMBS-AUBURN / RAHWAY-CLINTON / TENTON-ANGOLA / ATMORE-HOLMAN / REIDSVILLE / ALDERSON / RALEIGH / MCALESTER / NAPANOCH / BEDFORD HILLS / LEAVENWORTH / VALPOLE / FOLSOM / MARION / STATEVILL / PONTIAC]. In large green print at the bottom, the poster reads: [THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES / Support the Black Liberation Struggle / Support All National Liberation Struggles / Free All Political Prisoners and P.O.W.’s]. At the very bottom edge is [Madame Binh Graphics Collective].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1978
• Created by: Madame Binh Graphics Collective, American, 1977 - 1983
• Subject of: Black Liberation Army, American, 1970 - 1981
• Subject of: George Jackson, American, 1941 - 1971
• Subject of: Attica Correctional Facility, founded 1931
• Subject of: Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, American, founded 1901
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper and cardboard
• Dimensions: H x W x D (board): 30 1/8 × 21 3/4 × 9/16 in. (76.5 × 55.3 × 1.5 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (art): 30 1/8 in. (76.5 cm)
• Place depicted: Attica, Wyoming County, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Black power
• Topic: Prisons
• Topic: Resistance
• Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
• Object number: 2022.21.20
• 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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