Strikethrough:
Typography Messages of Protest for Civil Rights
COLETTE GAITER
In the 1960s and 1970s of this country, everyday activists took to the streets with placards in their raised arms with urgent messages made visible in typographic form.
This selection of protest graphics will focus on a Black experience. However, the Civil Rights movement represented and inspired diverse protest movements with wide-ranging socio-economic, racial, geographic, and class hierarchy origins. From Emory Douglas’ prolific body of Black Panther publications, countless graphics from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the iconic “I AM A MAN” poster, many known and unknown makers used graphic design to advocate for Black equality.
RESOURCES
BOOKS
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ARTICLES & LINKS
- Charles Dawson Biography
- Spiral Perspectives African American Art Collective
- Pamphlet about the Patrice Lumumba Coalition
- Now! 1965 Santiago Alvarez
- Higgs boson discovery announcement
- This New Orleans Artist Challenges the Way People See Things
- Act Up: Oral History Project
- Oral history interview with Robert Vázquez-Pacheco, 2017 December 16-17
- The Communication Company (Diggers)
- The Wedgwood Slave Medallion: Values in Eighteenth-century Design
- Explorations of race, migration & culture
- Martin Luther King Jr: New
documentary on FBI surveillance - All Black Creatives
- THE TRIPLE EVILS
- For Diversity Leaders in the Arts, Getting Hired Is Just the First Step
- Interference Archive
I AM A MAN
- Experience VR History I am A Man
- I Am A Man VR Piece
- “AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?” : THE POLITICAL POWER OF THE IMAGE
- I AM A MAN Woodtype: selective emphasis for fine typography (1960)
- Code for I AM A MAN
- Am I Not A Man And A Brother Image
- PBS: "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"
- Beyond the Bauhaus: I AM A MAN
- Letterform Archive Conversation with Emory Douglas
- The Art of Liberation: Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Artists in 1968 by Colette Gaiter
- Barbara Jones Hogue "When Styling"
- Black and Brown Biennale
- Ellen Gallagher DeLuxe
- Center for the Study of Political Graphics
- Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia
- Artist Nick Cave’s Controversial Upstate New York Artwork Has Found a New Home at the Brooklyn Museum
- We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85
- The Art of Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts & the Vision in a Cornfield
- ARTISTS, INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND MUSEUMS IN EXILE Catalogue
- Past Disquiet: Curated by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti
- AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People
- Art for People′s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975
- The Letterpress Posters of Amos Kennedy
- A Conversation With Amos Kennedy
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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983
- Soul of a Nation Catalog
TYPOGRAPHY
POLITICS
BLACK PANTHER PARTY
INFRASTRUCTURE
RACE AND TECHNOLOGY
PRINT & PRESS
- How iconic typographic picket signs became our eternal cry for justice
POLITICS
- Lesson of the Day: ‘Decoding the Far-Right Symbols at the Capitol Riot’
- Michael Moore Explains Why Trump Won in 45-Minute Commercial-Free 'Morning Joe' Appearance
BLACK PANTHER PARTY
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All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50
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A complete archive of the Black Panther Party's newspapers from beginning to end.
- The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Receives a $200,000 Gift For Black Panther Party Legacy Project
- This Just In: Emory Douglas & The Black Panther Party
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Redlining graphics
- Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center
- Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing
- Segregated Seattle
- Danny Lyon, The Only Thing I Saw Worth Leaving
- Muhammad Speaks Archive
- Josiah Wedgwood Abolitionism
- Building A Beloved Community by Puanani Burgess
RACE AND TECHNOLOGY
PRINT & PRESS