STRIKE
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Title
STRIKE
Subject
Kent State
Description
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, Kent State, and then also says "you". In New Haven at the time, a series of trials against members of the Black Panther party was occurring. All of these places on the poster represent a strong distaste for America’s actions towards its own people, and the arrogance of their righteousness in meddling and killing in foreign countries.
This poster is simply designed, but tells a story of America’s actions in the early 70s, and it’s people’s reactions towards them. It’s including of multiple places serves as a reminder that things do not happen in a vacuum, that they are all interconnected in various ways. This poster intertwines these events and lets us see them as pieces of a larger picture, in the unique way that art is able to. After May 4th, many were afraid that the school would try to forget that day, washing it from their history. John Fitzgerald O’Hara writes “during the 1970s, many people charged that the university was trying to forget May 4. Indeed, the university was ambivalent about the event” (p. 77). The public saw that as not right, and this poster shows their efforts to call out what they saw happening and draw attention to these injustices.
This poster is simply designed, but tells a story of America’s actions in the early 70s, and it’s people’s reactions towards them. It’s including of multiple places serves as a reminder that things do not happen in a vacuum, that they are all interconnected in various ways. This poster intertwines these events and lets us see them as pieces of a larger picture, in the unique way that art is able to. After May 4th, many were afraid that the school would try to forget that day, washing it from their history. John Fitzgerald O’Hara writes “during the 1970s, many people charged that the university was trying to forget May 4. Indeed, the university was ambivalent about the event” (p. 77). The public saw that as not right, and this poster shows their efforts to call out what they saw happening and draw attention to these injustices.
Creator
Columbia College Chicago Students
Source
Kent State, College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago
Publisher
College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago
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Rights
“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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Citation
Columbia College Chicago Students, “STRIKE,” Protest Art, accessed May 14, 2024, https://protest.omeka.net/items/show/28.