2010.54.13601

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Celebrating black women's history
Celebrating black women's history
1988
18 in HIGH x 24 in WIDE
(45.72 cm HIGH x 60.96 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.13601

"poster design: Syracuse Cultural Workers (315/474-1132) / illustration: Rick Wheeler" printed in white at the bottom left corner. "(c)1988 / National Women''s History Project / P.O. Box 3716 Santa Rosa, CA 95402" printed in white at the bottom right corner. "Rosie 8.00" on verso top right corner handwritten in pencil. "black [female symbol twice]''s hist. 5.00" on verso bottom left corner handwritten in pencil.





Poster has an unprinted white border all around enclosing a stylized black and white image of an African American woman with her eyes closed and her lips in an "o'' singing, on a pink background. At the top left on the pink is "celebrating / Black Women''s / history" in white. The rest of the poster conent is positioned in the black shadows and hair of the woman on the background. To the left of her face is her name, birth year and claim to fame. Bottom of poster has eight black and white images in pink circles, arranged in two rows of four photos each. Below each circle is the name of the woman pictured, her birth (and if applicable, death) year(s) and most notable achievement. Women featured include Marian Anderson as the background and Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Madam C.J. Walker, Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Lena Horne, Lorraine Hansberry and Wilma Rudolph.
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