2010.54.7489
(57.15 cm HIGH x 43.81 cm WIDE)
Poster is printed on white paper with text and images in red, green, black, and brown. The top of the poster has text in black: "America has more prisons, / and prisoners, than any / other country in the world. / Why???" with a stylized drawing of a prison wall with several watchtowers, red blood is drawn dripping from the bottom edge of the prison wall. The top of the poster also has a stylized drawing of the head of a male figure with glasses, the man's hair is overlaid with a drawing of a figure rendered in brown kneeling and shackled to a black drawing of the African continent. Below these drawings is more text in black: "Prisons are Big Business / The Prison Industry is / The third largest / Industry in America.". The lower left corner of the poster has a red background with a stylized drawing of the United States of America which is colored with green crosshatching and overlaid with drawings of two male and one female figure. The lower right corner has a white background with text in black: "Support - The - Struggle - For - Black - Liberation - Where - Ever / You - Are / Alabama Prison Struggle / CPSB PO Box 955 / B'ham, Ala. 35203 / Support the / Prisoners / Program" with the red , black, and green Pan-African flag.