Posters

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

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” —Octavia E. Butler Groundbreaking…

It was the autumn of 1969. Thousands of American Indians occupied the abandoned remains of Alcatraz, the federal…

Since the early 1980s, ADAPT has been a national network of activists with disabilities that employs nonviolent civil…

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

This Celebrate People’s History poster honors Jewish involvement in anti-colonial struggles. The Israeli Socialist…

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

Sylvia Ray Rivera is back in all her glory. Sylvia, a Puerto Rican and Venezuelan transwoman from New York City, was a…

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

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

In April 1921, the Seki Ran Kai (Red Waves Society) was formed with socialism as its goal. It was the first…

August 10 is Prison Justice Day. PJD started in Canada in 1976 to pay tribute to prisoners who died in prison. On this…

On December 11, 1921, propelled by the need to feed their children and outraged at Kansas’s new antilabor…

The Lesbian Herstory Archives opened in 1974 in the Upper West Side Manhattan apartment of Joan Nestle and Deborah Edel.…

Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and union organizer deep in Amazon rainforest, pioneered the combination of environmental…

Bayard Rustin, 1912–1987. “Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man, but around…

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

In 1968 the Brown Berets organized a massive student walk out in East LA, demanding equality in schools for Chicanx…

The Rani of Jhansi was born in 1828 and her early education was unusual for girls at the time: wrestling, swordfighting,…

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

“Armed with the knowledge of our past we can charter a course for our future. Only by knowing where we’ve…

World Charter for Prostitutes’ Rights 1985Sex Workers’ Rights are Human RightsLawsDecriminalize all aspects…

Protect Mauna Kea. The new wave of aloha ‘āina defends sacred land from scientific imperialism. No to TMT.Printed…

In the summer of 1966, an organization of queer and trans street youth called The Vanguard staged a street sweeping in…

The Paris Commune was a popular-led revolution and democratic government that ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871.…

The Angel Island Liberty Association (or "Self-Governing Association") was a mutual-aid society run by Chinese…

With 1.5 million members, the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST) is one of the largest social movements in…

From 1972 to 1991, former Chicago police commander, John Burge, and his men systematically tortured over 119…

A daughter of French immigrants, Louise Olivereau was an organizer for the IWW in Seattle and was among an active but…

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