Posters

San Francisco 1966: Transwomen and drag queens working in the Tenderloin district of San Fransisco often took refuge in…

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

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

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

On August 8th, 1988, hundreds of thousands of workers, students, monks, mothers, and children gathered in the streets…

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

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

In 1958, Carol Parks Hahn and Ron Walters, two Wichita NAACP youth leaders, decided to protest segregation of local…

Dolores Huerta is a Chicana labor leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union. In the 1970's she directed…

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

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

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

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

This is definitely one of the most beautiful Celebrate People's History posters yet! An amazing block print…

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

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

From the new Peoples' History Posters! This one celebrates one of the most charismatic and intelligent Black…

In 1967, Freedom House Ambulance Service was founded to serve the predominantly Black Hill District of Pittsburgh,…

Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas was born in Nigeria in 1900. Funmilayo (the name she went by) was the fisty female…

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

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

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

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

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

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…

With this poster from the Celebrate People's History series, commemorate the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp,…

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

In September 1968 on the West Side of Chicago, members of a student group the New Breed at Carter H. Harrison Technical…