2010.54.15217

Guinea-Bissau Independence
1975
35 in HIGH x 23 in WIDE
(88.9 cm HIGH x 58.42 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.15217

"Copyright 1975 by Women Graphics ????????????? Chicago, IL 60657" in black vertically up the left edge near the center. "Order from CCLAMOB, New World Resource Center, 2646 N. Halstad Chicago, Illinois 60619" in black vertically down the right edge at the center.

Poster has a printed background showing the sun with white rays shining in the yellow/orange sky over a village surrounded by tall grasses and trees. At the right is a green shape of Africa. Across the top is "Guinea-Bissau Independence / September 24, 1973" in red. At the bottom of the poster is "we are African peoples, / we have our own hearts, our own heads, our own history, / it is this history which the colonialists have taken from us, / today, in taking up arms to liberate ourselves / we want to return to our history, on our own feet, by our own menas / and through our own sacrifices. / African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cabo Verde (PAIGC)" in white.
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