Posters

In the late 1960s, Black autoworkers began to confront the racist practices of the United Auto Workers union and the …

In July, 1936, soon after General Franco's fascist troops revolted against the Spanish Republic, Buenaventura …

In the Beacon Food Forest, community members have created guilds of plants working together to create a bountiful …

El Hijo del Ahuizote was a revolutionary newspaper that fought against Porfirio Diaz’s dictatorship in Mexico. …

The Spanish Maquis were guerrillas who fought against the Franco regime. They carried out sabotage in Spain, as well as …

One of the early Celebrate People's History posters, Ben Rubin's Emma Goldman poster is still one of the most …

It’s 1969. Underground comix express counter-cultural values in San Francisco (and elsewhere), breaking new …

This image pays homage to Roscoe Van Zandt and his fellow Flint Sit-Down strikers of 1936-37. Viewed as the birth of …

Gabriel Dumont and the Metis Resistance of 1869-1870 & 1885. For the Metis of North America, the political and …

Ghassan Kanafani (1936–1972) worked as a journalist, a literary critic, and as a fiction writer. He was a spokesman …

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

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

The Austin community is on Chicago’s Far West Side and is anchored by a group of women who look out over their …

Beginning in 1791 and lasting through 1804, the Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt in the "New …

Harry Hay composed the first manifesto of the American Gay Rights Movement in 1948.“We know how to live through …

Haskell Indian Nations University began as the U.S. Indian Industrial Training School. It was one of the first Native …

Meet River, the genderqueer kitty with all the feelings. Besides juggling the ups and downs of mental health, they …

Life is full of major decisions and often we get lost and mired in the slog of figuring out what's best for us, or …

Life is full of major decisions and often we get lost and mired in the slog of figuring out what's best for us, or …

Recently, an artist friend celebrated a modicum of success after five years of hard work. Many people cheered and …

In 1984 members of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) refused to unload South African cargo off …

The International Hotel was a low-income residential hotel that became the most dramatic housing-rights battleground in …

In 1913 thousands of Philadelphia longshoremen formed the nation's most progressive union. Local 8 welcomed African …

In London, twelve thousand festive, masked people stormed the city of London (the city’s financial district!). At …

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

Jana Sanskriti (Bengali for “People’s Culture”) mixes Indian folk theater with the political action …

Underground abortion service with 100+ members who performed over 11,000 illegal abortions in Chicago."Those of us …

Jane Jacobs, a writer, activist, and urbanist, and with her Greenwich Village neighbors stopped proposed expressways …

In 1911, the Kalamazoo Corset Company was the largest manufacturer of women’s corsets in the world. In spring of …

Katherine “Kittie” T Knox (1874-1900) challenged perceptions of race and gender in the national spotlight …