Infernal Triangle - Billy Morrow Jackson, Civil Rights, Political Poster, 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.
Infernal Triangle
The Infernal Triangle (5) implies an
“unholy”
trinity –the faithful, the political, and the purveyors of force. A vulture crown has replaced the pontiff’s mitre. The Pope holds a cross made of dynamite sticks that he is in the process of lighting. The vestments are emblazoned with the Confederate flag. George Wallace is sitting naked apart from epaulets on his shoulders and a crow on his head. He is staring into a mirror and evidently sees himself as a reflection of Christ (Crown of Thorns). In his lap is the dead body of a black man with a noose still around his neck. A portion of the image recalls the Pieta (The Pity) by Michelangelo. However, unlike the Pieta there is no evidence of concern or pity in this image. Wallace is seated on a pile of partially covered dead bodies whose heads can be seen peaking from underneath the draped cloth. (Death and destruction residing just beneath the surface of things:
“As above, so below.”
Wallace’s feet are drawn in an anatomically incorrect manner, implying the wrong direction or backwardness.
The final figure in the piece is a man in a bull headdress accompanied by a wolf/dog and carrying guns. As he controls the wolf/dog, Wallace controls him by a leash.
At the centre of this image is the Confederate flag. The alternative for the Confederate flag(5) has been the
“Stars and Bars”
or the Naval Confederate Battle flag, which, soon after its creation, became the ubiquitous symbol of the South. The meaning ascribed to this symbol has been furiously contested, but most have accepted that at its heart it is about slavery, segregation, and white supremacy. In modern times, Neo-confederates and supremacist
“hate”
groups have adopted this flag as their own and whatever any original intent to indicate pride and sacrifice, that meaning has been lost.
The Infernal Triangle 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)