Book

Celebrate people's history : the poster book of resistance and revolution / edited by Josh MacPhee ; foreword by Rebecca Solnit.

New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2010.

255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

One hundred posters designed by over eighty artists celebrate important acts of resistance--events and individuals working toward racial justice, women's rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and innovative activism. CPH is a creative tour through history from some of the most socially engaged artists working today. Artists include Christy Road, Nicole Schulman, Swoon, Eric Drooker, Garage Collective, and more.

Social problems -- Posters.

Social action -- Posters.

Posters -- 20th century.

Posters -- 21st century.

Political posters.

MacPhee, Josh.

Foreword / Rebecca Solnit -- Introduction / Josh MacPhee -- The Diggers -- The Pueblo Revolt -- Jamaican Maroons fend off the British -- The Stono Rebellion -- John Brown -- The Haitian Revolution -- Frederick Douglass -- Sequoyah and the Cherokee Writing System -- Elisée Reclus -- The Underground Railroad -- The Little Shell Band of Chippewa Indians -- Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Action -- Little Bighorn -- El Hijo del Ahuizote -- May Day -- Haymarket -- Las Gorras Blancas -- Battle of Homestead -- Eugene V. Debs -- Gabriel Dumont and the Métis Resistance -- Emma Goldman -- Dr. Marie Equi -- Major Taylor -- Aunt Molly Jackson -- Primo Tapia de la Cruz -- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- Paul Robeson -- Red Feds -- Lawrence Textile Strike -- Kalamazoo Corset Company Strike -- IWW Local 8 -- Louise Olivereau -- The Dil Pickle Club -- Sacco and Vanzetti -- Amazon Army -- Seki Ran Kai -- The Battle of Blair Mountain -- The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (& Maids) -- Augusto César Sandino -- The Bonus Marchers -- Highlander Folk School -- The Funsten 500 -- Las Mujeres Libres -- Flint Sit-Down Strike -- The Durruti Column -- Disney Animators Strike -- The White Rose -- Harry Hay -- Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs -- James Baldwin -- Jane Jacobs -- Nueva Canción -- Matzpen -- El Hajj Malik Shabazz -- Dolores Huerta -- Muhammad Ali -- Compton's Cafeteris Riot -- The Brown Berets -- DRUM -- The Young Lords Organization -- Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker -- The Milwaukee 14 -- The International Hotel -- Fred Hampton -- The Occupation of Alcatraz -- Los Siete de la Raza -- Sylvia Ray Rivera -- Jane -- The Occupation of Ford Hall -- Walter Rodney -- Os Cangaceiros -- National Prisoners Reform Association -- The Lesbian Herstory Archives -- The Suicide Club -- Prison Justice Day -- The Animal Liberation Front -- Madres De Plaza De Mayo -- Crass -- Wangari Maathai -- Co-Madres -- B.U.G.A.U.P. -- The Escape of Assata Shakur -- The Silent Majority -- Informal Recyclers -- Phoolan Devi -- Chico Mendes -- Judy Bari -- ADAPT -- The Great Arizona Mine Strike -- Mothers of East Los Angeles -- ACT UP Philadelphia -- 8.8.88 -- Battle of Tompkins Square Park -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Jana Sanskriti -- Narmada Bachao Andolan -- The Korean Peasants League -- Sarah White and the Delta Pride Strike -- The Red Army Faction Attack on Weiterstadt Prison -- EZLN -- Mystic Massacre Statue Moved -- Cochabamba Water Struggle -- J18 or the Carnival Against Capitalism -- Vieques Libre -- San Francisco Shutdown -- Shannon Airport Plowshares -- Atenco Aguanta -- Oaxaca Women's Resistance -- Smash EDO/ITT -- Youth-Led Resistance to Immigration Raids and Deportations -- Artist Biographies.

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