prison

Summer Jam to Stop the Super Jail!
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed with black and purple ink on white paper. The page has an overall black background. "Summer Jam to Stop the Super Jail!" is printed in large letters at top. A figure in purple...

Tear Down the Walls
2002

Poster printed with brown and black ink on white paper. The page contains a brown and black photograph shot looking down the center of a spiral of barbed wire at the top of a prison fence. "Tear...

Free All Psychiatric Inmates!
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed with black ink on white paper. A photograph of a doorway inside a building that is constructed with wire-embedded security glass appears at center left on an overall black...

Ethnic Cleansing
1999

Multi-color poster shows an image of a frowning judge with a gavel at top center. The figure appears on a red background with wavy lines around the figure's shoulders. A yellow oval behind the...

L.A.'s #1
2005

Poster has a white border with a light blue background with white text. Around the edges are photos of youth and violence. Poster reads, "L.A.'s #1/ If you wonder why we're dying, check out how...

America Remembers!
1985

Poster printed in shades of orange and white with a graphic of a Bald Eagle. The Eagle has its wings extended in flight with one of its legs shackled to a chain that extends to the bottom right...

POW/MIA
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster is printed on white paper.The poster is an image of a man who is blind-folded in a prison cell. The bars on the cell appear to be made of bamboo or another plat material. the prisoner is...

America Remembers!
1985

Poster printed in shades of orange and white with a graphic of a Bald Eagle. The Eagle has its wings extended in flight with one of its legs shackled to a chain that extends to the bottom right...

Guilty Until Proven Wealthy
c. 1997

Poster printed with green and black ink on white paper. The page has a background of green lines in a geometric pattern similar to the pattern on the US one dollar bill. A large embellished...

Support Women in Prison
c. 1980

Poster has an orange background with blue text. Poster reads, "I remember being watched I remember the fear of being caught being me/ from I Remember C/W by Claudia Grayson/ Support Woemn in...

Folsom Prison
c. 1974

Black and white poster shows an image of a man seen from behind at center next to five vertical lines of irregular height that represent prison bars. The man is shown wearing only boots and he...

Attica
Late 20th century

Black and white poster contains a full page photograph of a group of men in a hallway lined with multiple overhead lights and radiators along the walls. The men hold long objects that appear to...

We hunger, they feed us lies...
n.d.

Poster has a red background overall. The top of the poster is printed with text in a handwritten style, in tan: "We hunger, they feed us lies / We thirst, they draw our blood". The center of the...

Attica 1971-1973
1973-2010

Poster is printed overall with an image of a large crowd of male figures, in the open courtyard of a large building, many of them have a fist raised in the air and appear to be shouting. The image...

Rally In Support Of San Quentin Six and the Wilmington Ten
1975

Poster has a red background and a thin white border overall. Poster has text in white from top to bottom: "Rally / In Support Of / San Quentin Six and / the Wilmington Ten / Protesting Repression...

"Break De Chains" Prisoners Of War
1976

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...

Attica
1978

Top edge of poster has the text: "Anniversary Of The Attica Rebellion (September 9-13, 197)". The poster has a large stylized drawing overall. The drawing shows a pair of human hands that appear...

Circa 1978

Poster is printed on white paper with text and images in red, green, black, and brown. The top of the poster has text in black: "America has more prisons, / and prisoners, than any / other...

Correspond With  A Radical Prisoner
2003

Poster is has an unprinted border overall. The poster is printed overall with a montage of stylized drawings in black and white. The left side has the face of a Native American Indian, a mother...

Committee to Abolish Prison Slavery
1977

Poster has a border of a black and white chain around a red background. In the center are two black and white hands with "CAPS" printed in red lettering underneath. On the right is white text. It...

Abolish Prison Slavery
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed with black text and red graphics on white paper. A single line black border frames the page. A red silhouette of a figurative arm in a vertical pose fills the page. A black...

circa 1971

Poster has a thick white border printed with text in black overall clockwise from top it reads: "People's Victories: / Billy Smith - Los Siete - N.Y. Panther 21 - / Support The Chino...

The Need To Love
1975

Poster is printed on brown paper with text and images in black. Posters ha border of a thin black like with small designs in the corners. The top of the poster has the text: "The Need To Love / I...

Smash Colonial Violence Free Dessie Woods March on July 4
20th Century

Poster has a red background and thin unprinted white border overall. The top of the poster has a collage of black and red photographs of people being arrested, a large group of people seen through...

© 2024 Oakland Museum of California