Object number:
2010.54.15382
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
You Can't Jail The Revolution
Date made:
1969
Material / Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 24.35 in, W: 20 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
Poster
Content description:
This poster features an image of a red human figure holding one fist up and leaning over. There is a jagged purple background behind. Purple and red text to the right reads "You Can't Jail / The Revolu- / Tion / Stop / The / Trial / free the / Chicago / 8". [This was the legal case resulting from the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The trial of the Chicago 8 became the trial of the Chicago 7 after defendant Bobby Seale was severed from the case. -LMC]
Concepts:
trial; revolution
Persons:
Chicago 8
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