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The artist was asked to create an image that commemorated the 1960s, a tumultuous decade defined by violence and by protests over the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, feminist and gay rights advocacy, and an emergent counter culture.
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.
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.
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!”
2 Ιουν 2020 · It’s a mix of protest in terms of carrying signs and slogans, but also rage and tears and lashing out. And, like in the 1960s, there has been some looting, because the glaring injustice of ...
13 Μαΐ 2024 · As the 60s turned into the ’70s and the Vietnam War dragged on abroad, and racism and injustice persisted at home, frustration mounted. There was disagreement in the movement about how best to persist: with the same largely peaceful protests of the 60s or with newer more aggressive tactics?
Between the mid-1950s through the 1970s, citizens engaged in a massive protest movement to fight for the rights and freedoms of all Americans. 1968 was pivotal in the civil rights movement, marked by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the widespread riots that followed, and the passage of a new Civil Rights Act.
