2010.54.3304
March on Washington & San Francisco
1971
27.00 in HIGH x 18.00 in WIDE
(68.58 cm HIGH x 45.72 cm WIDE)
(68.58 cm HIGH x 45.72 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.3304
Bottom center has a union stamp, Allied number 19. In the bottom left corner is a stamp for the Student Mobilization Committee To End The War in Southeast Asia in San Francisco.
Poster has a blue background with red and blue text. In the center is an image of Uncle Sam with his hands and feet buried in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Poster reads, "Pull him out now/ join with hundreds and thousands of students, gi's, women, unionists, puerto ricans, gay people, indians, blacks, clergy, chicanos in a mass march on washington & san francisco/ April 24." At the bottom is the contact information for the Student Mobilization Committee to End War in Vietnam in Washington D.C.The image vividly evokes the "quagmire" sensation of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. [LMC]
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