2010.54.7281

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Top of the poster is printed with large pink text in a hand written style: "On Sept. 13, 1971, Nelson Rockefeller / Ordered The Attica Massacre. / Forty -Three Unarmed Men Were Killed" and smaller text in blue in a handwritten, cursive style: "I see disbelief and surprise when it was disclosed to the world that / all the men, guards and inmates alike, were killed by the state. I / see how helpless inmates went to their deaths clean, no blood on / their hands or murder in their hearts. Their struggle has been an / honorable one, twenty-eight demands which by all standards of human decency they should have anyway. / Laverne Barkley / mother of L.D. Barkley, Killed at Attica". The bottom of the poster has a blue stylized photographic image of a shirtless man helping another man in a white shirt with his arm around the shirtless man, to walk. To the left of these two figures a soldier or police officer is standing with crossed arms looking on, the background of the photo has a building and rubble. The photo is overlaid with text in pink in a handwritten style: "Many think of the brothers / who died at Attika [sic] / as dead and gone? / We think of them as / a harp that has given / a chord to the / revolutionary sound. / Attica Brother, Shango Bahati Kakawant / aka Bernard Stroble". Lower left corner has text in blue: "the rockefeller legacy 2".