Organize, Fight On! : the Unity We Need Is People’s Unity

Organize, Fight On! : the Unity We Need Is People’s Unity

Chicago Anti-Apartheid

A black and white photograph depicts a South African women standing amongst seated white women. Alongside, black and red text can be seen printed all on white poster paper. The top and bottom text originated from an older yet similar poster by the Federation of South African Women. The African National Congress backed this national liberation movement and wanted to raise awareness to its peoples’ attention. The poster’s image reflects the demand for women’s emancipation. The poster conveys strong emotion through its photograph and strong persuasive text. This allowed the African National Congress to fully and successfully depict their message of women’s emancipation. This ultimately lead, as Kim Miller stated in Moms with Guns: Women’s Political Agency in Anti-Apartheid Visual Culture, “[to] women’s increased power and issued a call to continue to recruit and mobilize women.”

Columbia College Chicago Students

Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection, College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago

College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago.

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Miller, Kim. “Moms with Guns: Womens Political Agency in Anti-Apartheid Visual Culture.” African Arts, vol. 42, no. 2, 2009, p. 73.

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