race

Stop Racism! Stop Police Violence!
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a white background with black text and graphics. In the center are silhouettes of police officers beating a man on the ground with a grid background. Poster has a quote from Malcolm X...

Stop the Arms Race
1975

Poster has a pink and black image of a mushroom cloud from an explosion. Down the center is a blue and white strip with "25 years - Stockholm Appeal" at the top and "Stop / The Arms / Race / for...

Stop the Arms Race
1975

Poster has a gray background with blue text. At the top left is "25 years / -Stockholm / Appeal". At the center is a stylized image of a doce shaped hand holding a branch shaped pen. At the bottom...

Bastille Day Race
2004

Poster has black ink printed on blue paper. At the top is "Bastille Day Race / 18 July 2004 Sunday / 31 Mile Bicycle Race / starts at 10 am at Fort Bragg Cyclery / and ends at The Ledford House in...

Surgeon Generals Warn:
2003

Poster has a white background with black, white, and red text. At the top is an image of a pack of cigarettes that reads, "Surgeon Generals Warn: Prop 54 Is Hazardous To Your Health, And Will...

Turn the Arms Race into a Disarmament Race
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a blue printed background. At the top is green Cyrillic text. At the center is a multicolor image of an hourglass, with a green meadow and purple mountains in the top portion and a...

Let's Do The Job
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a green background with a black and white photo and text. At the top is "Let''s Do The Job" in white followed by a photo of a line of protestors with signs at the right and an African...

Brown v. Board of Education
2004

Poster has an unprinted white border all around enclosing a gray background with black and white photos and black text. At the top is "the NIA Committee of Head-Royce School presents / The Second...

Race Relations Sunday
1940

Poster has black ink printed on light green paper. At the top is a stylized image of four figures of different races looking forward toward a cross - a Bible verse (1st John 1-7) is at the top...

Stop Police Brutality
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has black ink printed on white paper. At the top is "this man says: / You committ more crime and / violence than anyone else" followed by a centered black and white photo of a man in...

Paul Robeson
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a background image of a drawing of a man, printed in shades of blue and white. Across the center is "Paul / Robeson" followed by a paragraph bio of the man, all in orange. At the bottom...

Isa B. Wells-Barnett
1986

Poster background shows a black and white photo of an African American female. Across the top is "Ida B. Wells-Barnett / investigative reporter, leader of anti-lynching campaign" in white. Over...

Gloria Richardson
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This off-white poster features a black and white photograph of a woman speaking. She is visible from the shoulders up. Black text below reads "Gloria Richardson / Race Relation".

Untitled (The Last Supper)
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This is a horizontally-oriented poster of an illustration depicting The Last Supper. The people at the table all have dark skin and dark hair. They are dressed in white, red, and blue as well as...

Giro di / San Francisco
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This is a white poster on textured paper with red text and a green border. Large, red text at the top announces the "5th Annual / Giro di / San Francisco / Presented By The Columbus Day...

Studs Terkel Speaking on Race
n.d.

Poster has a wide unprinted white border and a narrow black and white checkered border. Poster has a black and white photograph of Studs Terkel in suit and tie with a checkered shirt overall. Top...

Studs Terkel Speaking on Race
n.d.

Poster has a wide unprinted white border and a narrow black and white checkered border. Poster has a black and white photograph of Studs Terkel in suit and tie with a checkered shirt overall. Top...

What Are Human Rights?
1960-2010

The upper two thirds of the poster are printed with a montage of black and white photographs of people of various, ages, genders, races, and appearances. The bottom of the poster has a white...

National March for Human and Labor Rights
n.d.

Poster is printed on light yellow paper. The top has a drawing of of people protesting with red text above them. Below reads, "National March for Human and Labor Rights/ Marcha para los Derechos...

Vote No on 21
2000

Multi-color poster shows a graphic of two figures on the top half of the page in an irregular single line border. The figure at left has a long cylindrical nose and green tentacles for a body....

O'Hara Celebrity Balloon Race
1983

Multi-color poster contains a color photograph of hot air balloons rising into the sky on a black background. Some balloons are half filled with air on the ground and a crowd of people watch the...

A benefit for smell this
Late 20th century

One black and white photocopied poster with "Esther & Celine will read tonite at 9pm with you. (heart) E+C" written in red marker in the lower right side. In the center is an image of a person...

Zippy 5K Mother's Day
Late 20th century

One poster with a pink background. Text at top of poster: "Zippy 5K / Mother's Day / Golden Gate Park San Francisco." Beneath that is a color image of the comic character Zippy the clown running...

Voices Within
1995

Poster printed with black ink on pink paper. "Third Annual Women of Color Reception" printed at top above photographs of women in two rows. "Voices Within" is printed across center in large font...

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