2010.54.7486

"Break De Chains" Prisoners Of War
1976
23.00 in HIGH x 17.25 in WIDE
(58.42 cm HIGH x 43.81 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.7486

Bottom edge center has: "(c) 1976 A. P. O. W. Alliance, P.O. Box 15128, San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 922-9213".

Poster is printed on white paper with text and images in black. The top of the poster has the text: " 'Break De Chains' / Prisoners Of War". The center of the poster has two photographs side by side; at left a male figure in dark pants and light short sleeve shirt standing in a prison cell with his right hand on the upper bunk, and at right a male figure in dark pants and jacket is standing with his hands on his hips in front of a row of prison cells. The bottom of the poster has the text: "Earnest Graham Eugene Allen / Many prison guards assured us that if they were not / successful in sending us to the gas chamber through / court procedures, they would have to go back to / their old traditional way of eliminating blacks, but we / don't feel much pain, because we know the people / are on the march. / In Time We Shall Win / Graham & Allen".
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