Object number:
2010.54.14889
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
Freedom Now for the Wilmington 10
Maker:
Rolando Cordoba
Date made:
1979
Material / Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 31 in, W: 17.875 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 black printed background. At the top is "Freedom / Now!" in yellow and "For The Wilmington 10" in white in English, Spanish, French and Arabic. At the bottom of the poster is a barred cell created with books and filled with paper figures. [The Wilmington Ten were black demonstrators in Wilmington (North Carolina) convicted of arson and conspiracy in 1971. Considered political prisoners, they served nearly a decade in jail and were eventually pardoned.]
Concepts:
freedom; Human Rights
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