Posters

In Chicago in 1969, Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party founded the original Rainbow Coalition, an anti-racist,…

A protest movement spread across Japan in 1918 in response to inflated costs of rice. On top of existing inflation, the…

For decades, residents of the Logan Heights community in San Diego fought to get a park in their neighborhood. Instead,…

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

Ni Una Menos is a women's empowerment movement that began in Argentina and spread across Latin America. Comparable to…

In the early 1700s, Queen Nanny and the Windward Maroons used guerrilla warfare to defeat the British from the mountains…

Grace Paley, 1922–2007. Poet laureate, educator, peace activist, feminist, short story writer. "It is the…

"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…