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The collection contains a diverse array of political and social issue posters, as well as several art prints, bumper stickers, and postcards from the 1960s-2020. Used as tools for community organizing, to express political and social discontent, and fight for social change, political posters offer unique insights into histories of struggles using a combination of high-contrast colors, striking images and vivid illustrations coupled with sharp slogans and descriptive text.

Poster issued by the NAACP, 20 W 40 St. New York, NY.

Text on poster reads: "I just want to be there- in love and in justice, and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Poster issued by the Lawyer Constitutional Defense Committee, Inc. Full title text reads: "Jackson State College 1967: the death of Benjamin Brown...Jackson State Colelge 1970: the deaths of Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green...Jackson State College 1973...?"

Five posters produced by SNCC, all photographs by Danny Lyon, SNCC's first staff photographer.

Five posters produced by SNCC, all photographs by Danny Lyon, SNCC's first staff photographer.

Five posters produced by SNCC, all photographs by Danny Lyon, SNCC's first staff photographer.