Black Man With Sign Board, Billy Morrow Jackson,Civil Rights 1964

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These posters make me sad, but wer cannot forget the past...we do need to move forward...these posters deserve to be properly displayed in a special spot. The 1960's were turbulent times. Civil Rights Movements were a major turning point in our history.
I borrowed and copied the following discription form "Kneal" magizine August 2018 for your history lesson.
Black Man with Sign Board
This image of Black man wearing a sandwich board advertises the events, people and atrocities of significance to black life in America. On it we see a variety of images—John F. Kennedy, the American Flag and its reverse image, George Wallace in the schoolhouse door, Medgar Evers, the fire hoses from the Birmingham march, Martin Luther King, the police dogs threatening demonstrators, the nation of Islam (Fruit of Islam Fighter), a white cross and it’s black mirror image, a slain black man on the ground, Ross Barnett, Abraham Lincoln, black child situated between Islam and Christianity, Watermelon and Swastikas, and children running to the Capitol for safety.
One particularly striking image is the reversal of the American Shield emblem. The shield has been placed in the background rather than its usual position in the foreground in front of the bird. A crow has replaced the eagle. The arrows and olive branches that are held in the bird’s talons have been replaced by bolls of cotton and a noose. The motto
‘E Pluribus Unum’
* has been replaced with—
‘We Reserve the Right To’
Black Man WIth Sign Board is part of a series of 8 posters on the Civil Rights Movement by Billy Morrow Jackson.
Attached is and article about the artist.
I have the entire series in the original tube .
The poster has been stored in a tube, dated Nov16,1965 mailed to St Louis FOSNCC. (St Louis Friends of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)