2010.54.5524

Nat Turner
circa 1970
23.00 in HIGH x 17.50 in WIDE
(58.42 cm HIGH x 44.45 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.5524

Bottom right has "Movement Press --- 330 Grove Street, San Francisco, California 94102."

Poster has a brown and white drawing of a man holding a flaming torch walking away from a large white mansion that is on fire. The man has a beard and wide eyes.

Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. The failed revolt spurred a vicious backlash. Original illustration appeared in the 1965 SNCC freedom primer ”Negroes in American History.” In March 1969 it was a full page in The Movement newspaper; December of that year it was produced as a poster for $1 ($.75 for Movement subscribers). [LMC]

 

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