kent state university

Justice? How Can Peace Stand Up Against Guns?
1994

Poster hs a drawing of a scale in the center with a gun on one side and flowers on the other. Poster has red lettering that reads, "Justice? Kent State 24th Annual Commemoration May 4, 1970-1994/...

Why Do We Remember?
1992

The poster has a purple and black border overall. The left edge has a large purple text: "Why / Do / We / Remember?". And smaller text in purple and black: "May 3rd / Arlo Guthrie in Concert / 2pm...

Kent State University
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster consists of a black border on a yellow background. Image depicts the National Guard soldiers on the Kent State University Campus with their weapons drawn. Text in top right corner reads "...

All his parents' love and devotion did not save the life of the this boy.  YOU can help save the lives of others.
1970

Poster has a graphic printed in black and pink ink of two people standing over a body lying on the ground.  A woman kneels nearby the body and looks upward toward the person on the right....

Divided We Fall
1970

Poster has a rectangular image of a woman with her mouth open printed in brown ink. Below the image is text printed in red ink that states "divided we fall." The image is a detail of Mary Ann...

Nixon "Understands student feelings"?
1970

Poster has an image of the Kent State University riots at the bottom. Printed above is "Nixon "understands student feelings"?" The bottom edge has "Speak out against the madness."

The...

Nixon is sorry - But the Pentagon Calls the Shots
1970

Poster has a black and white image in the center of the Kent State University shootings. Poster has black lettering that reads, "Nixon is Sorry - But The Pentagon Calls the Shots."

This...

Nixon "Understands Student Feelings"?
1970

Poster has a blue image of the Kent State University shooting. It depcits a woman yelling over the body of a man laying on the ground. Above is "Nixon "understands student feelings"?"

Students are Americans
1970

Poster has a black and red background with abstract images of a woman and a man laying on the ground in front of her. The two figures are from the Kent State University protest image. At the top...

Guardsmen Kill
1970

The top of the poster has a newspaper heading with the text: "Final Daily News 8? / New York's Picture Newspaper". Below this header in large black letters is the text: "Guardsmen Kill". The...

Los Angles Times, Tuesday Morning, May 5, 1970
ca 1970

Poster is printed with a page from the Los Angeles Times overall. Top of the poster has two photographs. At left is a photograph of three shirtless soldiers, with rifles, in the jungle with the...

Rally: Four years later: Kent State University
1974

Poster has a red background on the right and an image in the upper left. The image depicts a group of soldiers with their guns drawn with a pile of dead bodies below. They are standing on a field...

Kent State University, May 4th, 1970
ca 1970

Poster has a thin black border overall. Poster has a photograph of of a group of soldiers in gas masks, with rifles drawn and bayonets fixed. The soldiers are standing under an umbrella or...

Remembrance
ca 1971

Top edge of poster has the text: "Remembrance" with small stylized drawing of a flower. Below the poster has four photographs arranged in two rows. From left to right the top row has a photo of a...

Kent State May 4, 1970
1972

Top of poster has the text: "Kent State / May 4, 1970". Below this is a stylized drawing of the silhouettes of a group of soldiers with rifles drawn and bayonets fixed. The soldiers are standing...

Kent State : Exhibition
1970

Poster has a thin white border overall. Poster has a red background with a large grey: "K" overall. The top of the poster has the text: "Exhibition of Paintings, / Photographs, Films, / Sculpture...

Memorial Meeting for Kent State Martyrs
1970

Poster appears as handwritten marker letters in black and burgundy. Poster reads, "Memorial Meeting for Kent State Martyrs Fri. May 8, 5PM-8PM Winterland Post & Sutter San Francisco Donation...

untitled (Kent State protest image)
c. 1970

Poster is an image of a woman kneeling down and lamenting over a dead body. Image is from Kent State massacre.

Without credit, publication data, or source documentation it is virtually...

1970

Top of poster has text in red: "Boston Mar. 5, 1770". Below is an image of an old engraving. At the top of the engraving is the text: "The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on...

1970

This is a typewritten and signed letter by Rafael J. Gonzalez, Faculty Senator, to the Faculty Senate at Laney College, protesting the involvement of the United States in Cambodia; the second page...

May-70

The article details the events of a peace march of students and faculty to Oakland City Hall protesting the deaths at Kent State University, Vietnam and Cambodia. A petition was presented to the...

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