Kent State
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Title
Kent State
Subject
Kent State
Description
At the start of 1970 America’s belief Nixon’s administration would end the Vietnam War was shattered with the announcement of the invasion of Cambodia. The coming days saw protest erupt on college campuses across the United States, which culminated in the deaths of 4 unarmed students at the hands of the Ohio National Guard on May 4,1970 during a Kent State student protest. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close temporarily. “536 campuses were shut down completely, 51 for the rest of the academic year.” Richard Nixon mentioned that it had a direct impact on national politics and believed that students were a threat to the safety of the country. The posters in this archive collection represent the work of Columbia College students who participated in those nationwide protests.
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Kent State, College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago
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College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago.
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“The oral histories are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. “ All rights remain with the creators.
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Collection Items
Strike On!
This poster titled, Strike On!, was released to encourage people to continue using their voice in protest of the violence breaking out due to the Vietnam War and also the violence taking place back in the United States in the wake of the May 4, 1970…
Strike Till Sam Hollers Uncle!
Rage sparked up throughout the nation about the shooting, in addition to the outrage against the United States Military presence in Vietnam. Uncle Sam is a cartoon man that historically has been the face/poster boy of the United States government,…
May 70
This poster was created with orange construction paper, an outline template and was silkscreened. This image itself has a lot of symbolic messages within itself. The American solider in front that is in combat has a soldier behind him and coming…
Anti-Kent State Poster
This poster was created with orange construction paper, an outline template and was silkscreened. This image itself has a lot of symbolic messages within itself. The American solider in front that is in combat has a soldier behind him and coming…
"Don't Shoot"
!["Don't Shoot"](https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/44879/archive/square_thumbnails/470d04475df9d72e809afb9dee4cefbf.jpg?Expires=1715212800&Signature=O9YaQfDKMrWN6dSqed4m%7EV-2D1MP8MT7dKq8ra7SmW37ouc%7E7Q9eslRy9wkhPIAIHZPSuXCYDVIPA%7EdheoEF8gdJ07fvNkaJ2UnAmlbZVqFnLanmSSEGXhPXG3G2yxwY-l3O9Avxsbhe1W%7EAQPALbbdSDWBkDyuT9eJKu5v5txLWkLE8zGT4jMRBkyr9rsKf0cISQWR5vUZZg0H-TNJaxs2RDiMxRe2GBaKv4uqIkt200f1n7%7ExTCCtr8wG2DqNhEbttkb1Ov0k2coGGRoSl-vdgy%7EPiqjsfQ06AhJGo8Iff12auP1EmRmQesQfwRraR3zRXM1Wp5DOqXztg0GW-mQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM ""Don't Shoot"")
On May 4th, 1970, Ohio national guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University who had an objection to the United States involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia during the late 60’s and into the 70’s. After all the years since the…
Uncle Sam Calls A Strike
This “Special Edition” poster was created in response to the events of Kent State by a group of Columbia College Chicago students know as the Columbia Collective. Uncle Sam, the central figure of this work, has long been used as a recruiting tool for…
STRIKE
On the poster is a simple white background with the world ‘STRIKE’ on it, each letter gets increasingly larger as if it’s exiting from being shouted through a megaphone. The letter E is the largest, and from it lists Vietnam, New Haven, Cambodia,…
“And If It Was Your Child?”
This poster is made very simply, but the context behind the poster holds so much depth. In purple letters written diagonally, the poster reads, “AND WHEN IT’S YOUR CHILD?” In the bottom right corner is a mother with a dead child in her arms. The…
The United States of America, You Don’t Count the Dead when God is On Your Side
The protest poster, “The United States of America, You Don’t Count the Dead when God is on Your Side” was created by Columbia College Chicago Students as a creative way of voicing their position on the Kent State shootings of 1970. This poster is not…
Strike Till Uncle Sam Hollers Uncle.
There were many different posters in this collection that were collected together in a shop in the south loop where they were displayed as protest posters. The posters protested both the acts of violence against the unarmed students at Kent State as…