Object number:
2010.54.7513
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
Stop Repression of the Black Liberation Movement!
Production organization:
Fireworks Graphics Collective
Date made:
circa 1983
Material/Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 24 in, W: 18 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
poster
Content description:
Poster has a drawing of two broken buildings with guards with guns on top. Breaking the building is a fist with handcuffs and a chain. In the lower righ of the building is "N.Y Brinks Trials in Session." On the buildings is "Secret Juries, Torture, Grand Juries FBI Attacks/ U.S. Courthouse." Poster reads, "Stop Repression of the Black Liberation Movement!/ Free all New Afrikan P.O.W.S & Anti-imperalist Freedom Fighters!" [This refers to the failed Brink's robbery of October 20, 1981 carried out by Black Liberation Army members. -LMC]
Concepts:
fist; chain; robbery; guard
Organizations:
Federal Bureau of Investigation