Posters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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 been can…

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

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 detainees…

In 1911, the Kalamazoo Corset Company was the largest manufacturer of women’s corsets in the world. In spring of 1912,…

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