Posters

Sojourner Truth was famous for her dedication to the abolitionist and feminist causes, and for overcoming such radical …

The Contract Buyers League were Black homeowners in Chicago, Illinois, who banded together to stop the practice of …

Wangari Maathai, the founder of the Greenbelt Movement, worked to make the public aware of the connections between …

In 1977 at the Washington State Penitentiary, a group of prisoners formed the group Men Against Sexism in order to …

In St. Louis, Missouri in 1933, 500 Black women who worked for the Funsten Nut Company mounted a successful strike …

In 1920, women incarcerated at New York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility staged a series of 'sonic …

In 1936, when the Olympics were held in Nazi Germany, Barcelona set about hosting the Olimpiada Popular, an …

In 2011 at an Occupy protest in Oakland, CA, two-time Iraq veteran Scott Olsen was shot in the head by police, …

"Don't listen to the hawks..." "We won't fight another rich man's war...." so say the …

The GLF was the first LGBT activist organization formed after the 1969 Stonewall uprising in NYC. No queer organization …

The poster celebrates the history of NYC's anti-gentrification movements, fighting for tenant power and housing as …

In the late 1960s and early 70s, the Black Panther Party was a major political force. The party's Kansas City, …

On April 25th, 1974, the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) of dissident Portuguese Army officers led a military coup, …

In Chicago in 1969, Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party founded the original Rainbow Coalition, an …

A protest movement spread across Japan in 1918 in response to inflated costs of rice. On top of existing inflation, the …

For decades, residents of the Logan Heights community in San Diego fought to get a park in their neighborhood. Instead, …

In the early 1920s, a group of Korean student activists in Tokyo got together to form an anarchist group, Futeisha, or …

Ni Una Menos is a women's empowerment movement that began in Argentina and spread across Latin America. Comparable …

After years of inhumane living and working conditions, in 1921 the coal miners of Appalachia answered the call to …

In 1989, Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement), formed to protest the damming of the Narmada River, which …

Two fiery activists, organizers, movement founders, and writers who began, throughout the gritty reality of …

The Dil Pickle Club was an underground literary nightspot in Chicago from 1914-1933, home to hobohemians, Newberry …

Erik Ruin's homage to the 17th century British revolutionaries who created small agrarian communities in hopes of …

Crass (1977-1984) was a group of artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians that banded together using punk …

In the early 1700s, Queen Nanny and the Windward Maroons used guerrilla warfare to defeat the British from the …

Grace Paley, 1922–2007. Poet laureate, educator, peace activist, feminist, short story writer."It is the …

"Yes I was a slave and I'll say this to the whole world: Slavery was the worst curse ever visited on the …

Power Up!Corita Kent was a radical educator, silkscreen printing pop artist, and activist agitator whose pedagogical …

International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union: “We’d rather starve quick than starve slow.”The …

Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, was the first slave to win her freedom in court …