2010.54.480

• african american
• ethnicity and race

Poster has a background that fades from light red to yellow. Across the bottom edge is a background of low hills. The upper left has a black and white photograph of a man labeled, "Imari Obadele Prisoner of War." Behind the photo is an outline of the United States with New Afrika printed over. On the right is an outline of Africa with two quotes from the New Afrikan Creed. Below is a black and white photograph of men walking in chains with the label, "The RNA-11." The poster reads in large lettering, "Free the Republic of New Afrika -11... Political Prisoners of War in Amerika The Struggle is for Land!" The Republic of New Afrika (RNA) was a social movement started in 1968 that proposed the creation of an independent African-American-majority country situated in the southeastern United States and reparations for descendants of slaves. [LMC]