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A crowd of African Americans armed with rifles and torches revolts in front of a burning government building. The poster bears a quotation from Mao stating, The evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of negroes and the trade of negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the black people. One of the crowd holds a placard identifying the quote as having been issued on April 16, 1968 Reformatted digital Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Title taken from Mao's quotation translated on poster 86E-497. UCSD's copy formerly owned by Paul Pickowicz Shanghai: Shanghai ren min mei shu chu ban she (上海: 上海人民美术出版社)
Type
image
Format
Photoprint 1 print (poster) : col. ; sheet 77 x 106 cm
Form/Genre
Picture
Subject
China--Foreign relations--1949-1976--Posters China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Posters Propaganda, Anti-American--China--20th century--Posters African Americans--Posters Anti-imperialist movements--China--20th century--Posters Political posters, Chinese Picture
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