Object number:
2010.54.2052
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
The Moment of Truth : Terror Tuesday
Date made:
1967
Material/Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 17.5 in, W: 22.75 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 13 black and white photos of a protest. The top reads, "The Moment of Truth Mild Monday Terror Tuesday." Each photo depicts police lines or protestors with captions. The captions read from top clockwise: Joan Baez, The Briefing, The sitting, Cock O' the Walk, Mimi Farina, The Burning, The waiting ... But why?, Final Sweep, Have some mace, ace?, Contra Pluribus Unum." [Seven protestors stood trial after the Stop the Draft Week mass arrests Tuesday, October 17, 1967 at the Oakland, California induction center. "Terror Tuesday" was a term coined by the Berkeley Barb but never reached broad usage. -LMC]
Concepts:
newspaper; draft; Vietnam War; activism; police officer; protest
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