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“Is He Protecting You?“ poster

Added by Louise Sandhaus 1029 on Jan 26th, 2021

Date

1964

Credits

  • Danny Lyon  6 Photographer
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee  6

Format

  • Poster  697

Type of Work

  • Finished work  3706

Printers

  • Lincoln Lithograph Company ?  2

Techniques

  • offset lithography  277

Dimensions

13 × 21 in

Locations Made

  • New York  249

Links

  • www.crmvet.org…
  • www.vice.com…
  • collection-politicalgraphics.org…
"Photo taken during the riots that erupted when James Meredith tried to register to became the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi at Oxford, MI, in October 1962."—http://collection-politicalgraphics.org/detail.php?module=objects&type=related&kv=3434

Tags

  • 1960s
  • 60s
  • Political
  • Political Design
  • Racism
  • campaign
  • activism
  • Civil Rights
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • African American
  • BIPOC
  • Black Design
  • Freedom Movement
  • Black history
  • Segregation
  • SNCC
  • Protest
  • Photography
  • Police Brutality
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