2010.54.1147

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Lolita Lebron
1975
28.5 in HIGH x 22.5 in WIDE
(72.39 cm HIGH x 57.15 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.1147

Bottom right corner has "La Raza Silkscreen center" printed in black.





Poster has a drawing at the top of a woman's head in profile. The background behind her is light yellow. Below the head in white is, "Lolita Lebron/ 'Todos somos pequenos, solo la partria es grande y esta encarcelada." The bottom half of the poster has a Puerto Rican flag with "Viva Puerto Rico Libre!" repeated in white and black over the flag. Dolores "Lolita" Lebr�n Sotomayor (1919 - 2010) was a Puerto Rican independence activist who attacked the United States House of Representatives in 1954. She went to prison for 25 years and was pardoned by President Jimmy Carter in 1981. [LMC]
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