racism

c. 1970

Poster has a brown background at the top with a black and white image of a young boy wiping tears away from his eyes. Below is black printed text that has truths about Americans and how they...

Rally Against Racism & Repression
1973

Poster has a black and white drawing of a chain as a border around the center text. The center of the poster has brown and white drawings of four people chained together. The top person is a...

c. 1970

Small poster with a drawing of a klan member on a horse that is rearing. The top has "Ku Klux Klan" printed in large black letters. The bottom edge has "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, and Forever"...

2000

Poster has a black and white image of a person being arrested on the left and a tan background on the right. The poster reads, "driving while black or brown DWD is not a crime/ fight racial...

1981

Poster has a pink, red and orange background with an image at the bottom that has white hands holding candles silhouetted against blue. Above are black and white drawings of men and women...

c. 1967

Poster has a black and white photograph of a pickup truck that is smashed. Over the photo in white is "When are they ever going to stop... When?" The left of the photo has a list of people hurt....

1977

The top half of the poster has an olive color background with a black and white skull that wearing a mask of a man's face. Below is a dark blue outline of an officer. The shoulder has O.P.D. and...

1977

Poster has a red and black background with outlines of men being held back by people in white helmets. The bottom of the poster has "Zionism is Racism" printed in red with "2nd Anniversary of the...

c. 1970

Poster has a drawing in the center on a red background. There are two fists, one blue and one red chained together by blue handcuffs. The poster reads from top to bottom, "Racism Chains Both/...

1976

Poster has a black background with a drawing of three African American people on the right with a person on the left jabbing a United States flag towards them. The poster reads in red, "stop...

3/14/91

Handwritten on back, "Sheriffs [sic] Deputy Allen Boyd fears the dept. is trying to fire him because he uncovered a racist document" Image depicts Boyd standing in a hallway, staring intensely.

1967

Brochure titled "Proposition 14, an Unamerican Attack on Our Constitution and Equal Rights!" issued by Californians Against Proposition 14. It lists reasons for voting against the proposition and...

1967

Brochure titled "The Church Says No on Proposition 14", issued by the Councils of Churches in Northern and Southern California. It lists questions and answers on why to vote agains Proposition 14...

1967

Brochure titled "What Has Your Religion to Do with Voting No on Proposition 14," issued by the San Francisco Conference on Religion and Race. Catholic, Protestant and Jewish religious leaders...

1967

Brochure from the November 3, 1967 election against Proposition 14. The brochure is published by Califonrians Against Proposition 14, and lists the leading organizations opposed to Proposition 14...

Sign reads "No Colored Trade Solicited." Lettering is white with black shadowing, surrounded by two rectangular outlines, one gray, one black, all on a maroon background. Sign is framed under...

1983

Booklet of off-white paper, printed in black, with the title in red "International Day of Nuclear Disarmament."

c. 1940 - 1950

Figure of a "Brownie" from Playland-at-the-Beach, San Francisco. Brownies are fictional characters created by Palmer Cox in the 1890's. They were very tiny creatures - dwarfed by flowers, using...

6-Mar-52

Rolling Wood is a neighborhood in Richmond California. Wilbur Gary was the victim of a hate crime, where the window was broken- as in this photograph- and a cross was burned on his lawn.

n.d.

"In 1977 a mixed couple moved in right next door to us. Mixed couple, that term is almost making me laugh right now, that was the term back then - now it's inter-racial. // The community's...

n.d.

"My background, well, German, English and Cherokee Indian. My parents were both half Cherokee. // I was in Los Angeles during the Watts riot, that was a mess. I had black friends down there...

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