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New videos feature Rev. James Lawson and T.O. Jones, who courageously waged the battle on behalf of striking sanitation workers. The iconic strikers with the "I Am a Man" signs and the garbage truck from the original exhibition are here. Film documenting the sanitation strike is projected upon the garbage truck.
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The selection of poems below call out and talk back to the inhumane forces that threaten from above. They expose grim truths, raise consciousness, and build united fronts. Some insist, as Langston Hughes writes, “That all these walls oppression builds / Will have to go!”
Over 200 sanitation workers joined him, carrying protest signs emblazoned with a refrain familiar to the history of civil rights struggles in America: “I Am A Man,” a catchphrase that grew out of the abolitionist movement over a century before.
14 Μαΐ 2015 · Blast From the Past 1960s: 15 Protest Signs That Sum Up the Sixties. These movements include the civil rights movement, the student movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement, the gay rights movement, and the environmental movement.
Malcolm X and Alabama activist Jimmy Lee Jackson are assassinated within days of each other (February 1965). Six hundred protesters march from Selma to Montgomery to advocate for voting rights (March 1965). President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (August).
Protest Poetry - Find protest poetry, including poems about equality, social justice, human rights, and climate change—as well as lines of poetry to include on posters and signs.
Beginning during World War I (or the Great War, as it was known then, since it was advertised as the “war to end all wars”), the recruitment poster became a major part of nation-state propaganda throughout the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.
