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Free Dessie Woods!: Smash Colonial Violence
Free Dessie Woods!: Smash Colonial Violence
c. 1980
15.75 in HIGH x 22.50 in WIDE
(40.01 cm HIGH x 57.15 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.7385

Bottom left has a small image of Dessie Woods and a fist with a torch. Bottom text reads, "On February 2, 1976, Dessie Woods, a Black woman, was railroaded into prison for successfully defending herself against a rape attack by an armed white man..." Text includes her story and contact information for the National Committee to Defend Dessie Woods and a union stamp for Inkworks.





Poster has a green background with white text. Main image is of a fist holding a flaming torch horizontally. In the flames is an image of Dessie Woods in profile. Poster reads, "Free Dessie Woods!/ Smash Colonial Violence."
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