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Buttons
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Buttons were one of the most popular and pervasive forms of political messaging during the 1960s, combining brief messaging and memorable graphic designs. Buttons were inexpensive to produce on a mass basis and easy to distribute. They afforded any individual an opportunity to voice their opinions and, potentially, reach a broad audience. As Hunter Oatman-Stanford has written, “From discreet lapel pins to oversized buttons on purses or backpacks, pinbacks invite conversation by declaring potentially controversial viewpoints to complete strangers.” In this way, buttons were (and still are) a particularly democratic form of political propaganda.
As button collector, John Aisthorpe, has put it, buttons offer “a little snapshot of history.” During the 1960s, buttons were vital to the visual identity of a range of movements. “There were many protest groups who put their views on buttons,” Aisthorpe recalls, “from the early ’60s with the Free Speech Movement (FSM) to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and, later, the Veterans for Peace, the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, and the Yippies.” The political impact of buttons in the 1960s is hard to gauge, though their popularity suggests some modicum of significance. And, as Aisthorpe has asserted, “It’s hard to say what impact they had, but the text of buttons worn at protests were often used as antiwar chants, like ‘Hell no, we won’t go!’… They must have had some effect.” The buttons of the 1960s have remained some of the most enduring relics from this important past.
This collection includes buttons from a wide array of movements from the Sixties, including the student movement, civil rights and Black Power movements, women's liberation, environmentalism, the anti-nuclear movement, gay liberation, electoral politics, the Chicano movement, the labor movement and the counterculture, with a strong emphasis on the anti-war movement. In addition, a few buttons date from Roz Payne’s activist efforts in the 1970s and 1980s, including the early political campaigns of Vermont politician, Bernie Sanders.
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Stop Racist Frame-Up Free Billy Smith
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On March 15, 1971, a fragmentation grenade killed two white officers and injured another on the U.S. Army base near Bien Hoa, Vietnam. Private Billy Dean Smith, who was stationed at the base, was charged with the crime. Smith was an African American draftee born in Bakersfield, California, in 1948, the tenth of twelve children in his family. They lived in Texas for several years before moving to the Watts section of Los Angeles in 1957. Smith was staunchly critical of the War in Vietnam, citing the racialization of the draft and the “imperialist” motivations for the war. His case received considerable media attention in the U.S. and raised awareness of the racial injustice within the military legal system, bringing greater attention to what became known as “fragging.” According to Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, “fragging” was the result of “an atmosphere that drives an American G.I. to kill his fellow G.I. or superior.. Fragging, I fear, is just an outgrowth of this mistaken, this tragic conflict.” Smith’s case also attracted the attention and support of a wide range of activists across the New Left, including Angela Davis and Fidel Castro. Castro called it “a new cause for the progressive movement and a new cause for international solidarity” and said, “A man became a criminal. A man who refused to destroy schools and hospitals and dikes, who devoted himself to refusing to kill Vietnamese people, who refused to kill women and children, to burn homes, to torture and commit all acts of this type. They are demanding his head and therefore there is now a new symbol: Billy Dean Smith.” In 1971, the Billy Dean Smith Defense Committee wrote, "This is an important case because of the wide array of issues it must, of its very nature, raise. For the first time in a long while, the case of Billy Dean Smith will put the built-in biases in the system of military justice -- and the Indochina war -- on trial. " In a letter published in Seize the Time, a newsletter by the Black Disciple Party, Smith wrote, "The Army is playing a very heavy game on me, and on all of the people at the same time. They are doing everything they can to keep my lawyers in place -- trying to keep information and evidence from them and to keep them from saying what has to be said. It is very clear that they will keep on trying to stop us from getting what we need for my defense." Ultimately, Smith was found not guilty of murder and attempted murder charges, though convicted of lesser charges stemming from the incident and given a bad conduct discharge.
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Billy Dean Smith Defense Committee
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
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1971
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Button
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Physical Object
Subject
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Anti-War Movement
Angela Davis
Anti-War
Billy Dean Smith
Billy Dean Smith Defense Committee
Black Disciples Party
Black Power
Fidel Castro
fragging
Mike Mansfield
New Left
Seize the Time
Vietnam War
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Posters and Graphic Design
Description
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The movements of the Sixties produced a rich history of political posters and other graphic arts. These posters were hung in political offices, bookstores, bedrooms and in public. The posters collected here include designs related to the anti-war movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, the Yippies, counterculture, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, environmentalism, Bernie Sanders’ elections for Burlington mayor, anti-communism, the labor movement, corporate inequality, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other topics. Of particular note are a series of posters created by the OSPAAAL, the Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the main publisher of international solidarity posters in Cuba.
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Roz Payne
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1959-1969 Tenth Anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban rebellion
Subject
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Cuban Revolution
Description
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This poster was created by self-taught Cuban artist, Rene Mederos, in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. The image heroicizes Fidel Castro as a leader of people’s liberation struggles.
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Rene Mederos
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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1969
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poster
Cuba
Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro
Rene Mederos
Third World liberation
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Photographs
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Roz Payne was a photographer and took hundreds of images of activism during the Sixties. The images in this collection include more than 500 photographs of the protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Other seminal events captured here include the 1967 anti-war demonstration at the Pentagon, the 1968 student take-over at Columbia University, the 1968 Huey Newton and Panther 21 trials, the Yippies and the Venceremos Brigade. Photos include famous Sixties figures, like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Eldridge Cleaver, H. Rap Brown, Bobby Seale, Kathleen Cleaver, Phil Ochs, Norman Mailer, A.J. Muste, Dick Gregory, Jean Genet, William Burroughs, Richard Daley, Mark Rudd, Dhoruba Bin Wahad and others. There are numerous other photos of lesser-known moments and activists, as well.
Still Image
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photographs
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Title
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Venceremos Brigade
(6 images)
Subject
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Cuban Revolution
Description
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Roz Payne took these photographs during a trip to Cuba as a part of the Venceremos Brigade. According to the Venceremos Brigade website, “In 1969, a coalition of young people formed the Venceremos ("We Shall Overcome") Brigade, as a means of showing solidarity with the Cuban Revolution by working side by side with Cuban workers and challenging U.S. policies towards Cuba, including the economic blockade and our government’s ban on travel to the island. The first Brigades participated in sugar harvests and subsequent Brigades have done agricultural and construction work in many parts of the island.”
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Roz Payne
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
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ca. 1969 or early-1970s
Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro
New Left
SDS
solidarity
Students for a Democratic Society
Venceremos Brigade
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Small Press Publications
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During the 1960s, numerous radical and independent small presses were created to publish longer essays, manifestos, philosophical tracts, treatises and poetry related to the movements of the New Left. These independent presses filled a niche that mainstream and commercial presses largely ignored. Small press publications were particularly vibrant in the women's liberation movement. While many of these independent publishers of the Sixties were short-lived, others have continued into the present.
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paper
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Venceremos Brigade: Cuba, 1969-1970
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This pamphlet briefly chronicles the history of the Cuban Revolution and diplomatic relations with the United States during the 1960s. Specifically, this pamphlet details the 10 Million Ton sugar harvest in Cuba with approximately six hundred Americans joining Cubans in an attempt to resist American imperialism in the nation and abroad and Cold War policies of the 1960s and 1970s. Creating a bond based on collective work, the Venceremos Bridge, comprised of U.S. revolutionaries and students, functioned as a way to combat U.S. economic constraints in Cuba.
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The Venceremos Brigade
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Roz Payne
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ca. 1971
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Cuban Revolution
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pamphlet
Cuba
Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro
internationalism
Labor Relations
SDS
socialism
solidarity
The Venceremos Brigade
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Posters and Graphic Design
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The movements of the Sixties produced a rich history of political posters and other graphic arts. These posters were hung in political offices, bookstores, bedrooms and in public. The posters collected here include designs related to the anti-war movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, the Yippies, counterculture, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, environmentalism, Bernie Sanders’ elections for Burlington mayor, anti-communism, the labor movement, corporate inequality, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other topics. Of particular note are a series of posters created by the OSPAAAL, the Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the main publisher of international solidarity posters in Cuba.
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Roz Payne
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Y Salvador Allende Cumplio Su Palabra en Forma Dramatica e Impresionante
Subject
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Latin American Leftism
Description
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This Cuban poster quotes a speech by Fidel Castro given on September 28, 1973 at the Plaza de la Revolucion, shortly after the CIA-backed coup in Argentina on September 11 that overthrew the Democratic-Socialist Salvador Allende and installed military dictator, Augusto Pinochet. During the coup, Allende took his own life.
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unknown
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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ca. 1973
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poster
Augusto Pinochet
CIA
Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro
Latin America
Plaza de la Revolucion
Salvador Allende
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Posters and Graphic Design
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The movements of the Sixties produced a rich history of political posters and other graphic arts. These posters were hung in political offices, bookstores, bedrooms and in public. The posters collected here include designs related to the anti-war movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, the Yippies, counterculture, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, environmentalism, Bernie Sanders’ elections for Burlington mayor, anti-communism, the labor movement, corporate inequality, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other topics. Of particular note are a series of posters created by the OSPAAAL, the Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the main publisher of international solidarity posters in Cuba.
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Roz Payne
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"Dile a Fidel que yo complire con mi deber"
Subject
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Latin American Leftism
Description
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This Cuban poster features Argentinian President Salvador Allende holding a gun and stating, "Tell Fidel I understand my duty."
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unknown
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
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1973
Argentina
Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro
Latin America
Salvador Allende
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Posters and Graphic Design
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An account of the resource
The movements of the Sixties produced a rich history of political posters and other graphic arts. These posters were hung in political offices, bookstores, bedrooms and in public. The posters collected here include designs related to the anti-war movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, the Yippies, counterculture, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, environmentalism, Bernie Sanders’ elections for Burlington mayor, anti-communism, the labor movement, corporate inequality, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other topics. Of particular note are a series of posters created by the OSPAAAL, the Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the main publisher of international solidarity posters in Cuba.
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Roz Payne
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Jornada de la Marcha Combatiente Hacia el Moncada
Subject
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Cuban Revolution
Description
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On July 26, 1953, Fidel Castro led a small group of revolutionaries in an attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba. The barracks was the second largest in Cuba and had been named for General Guillermon Moncada, a heroic figure from Cuba’s War for Independence in the 1890s. The attempted coup failed, with eight killed, several more wounded and more than seventy captured and tortured by the Batista regime, including Fidel Castro’s brother, Raul. Fidel Castro initially escaped into the countryside, but was later captured and placed on trial. During the theatrical trial, Castro famously said, "You may condemn me. History will absolve me." Following the 1959 revolution, Castro would mark the storming of Moncada as the start of the struggle against the Batista regime. This poster commemorates that event.
Creator
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unknown
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
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1980
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poster
anti-colonialism
Batista
Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro
Guillermon Moncada
Moncada
Raul Castro
Santiago de Cuba
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Posters and Graphic Design
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An account of the resource
The movements of the Sixties produced a rich history of political posters and other graphic arts. These posters were hung in political offices, bookstores, bedrooms and in public. The posters collected here include designs related to the anti-war movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, the Yippies, counterculture, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, environmentalism, Bernie Sanders’ elections for Burlington mayor, anti-communism, the labor movement, corporate inequality, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other topics. Of particular note are a series of posters created by the OSPAAAL, the Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the main publisher of international solidarity posters in Cuba.
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Roz Payne
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Title
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Che Guevara's Farewell Letter to Fidel Castro
Subject
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Cuban Revolution
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unknown
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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ca. late-1960s
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poster
Description
An account of the resource
After playing a pivotal role in the Cuban revolution and early Castro regime, Che Guevara left the island nation in 1965 to help foment revolution in other Third World nations.
In April of 1965, Guevara wrote this farewell letter to Fidel Castro, which was read publicly in Cuba by Castro in the presence of Guevara's wife and. children in October of that year.
Che Guevara
Cuba
Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro
Latin America