Spectre, no. 4
Women's Liberation
This publication was created by a group of "revolutionary separatist white women" and explores a variety of intersectional dynamics of the women's liberation movement, including race, class and sexuality.
revolutionary separatist white women, published by Know, Inc.
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
September/October, 1971
underground press
The Front
Black Power
This booklet describes the goals and platform of the Malcolm X United Liberation Front, a Marxist-Leninist black radical organization based in Tallahassee, Florida, and founded and headed by Robert Perkins. The group was in existence from 1969-1976. The Malcolm X United Liberation Front supported the Black Panther Party and remained committed to exposing the racialized caste system in the U.S. and ending sexism in the black community.
Malcolm X United Liberation Front
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1969
booklet
"Double Jeopardy," Frances Beale
Black Freedom Movement and Women's Liberation
This is an important pamphlet written by Frances Beale about the double-oppression of black women, as African Americans and women. Her analysis includes economic exploitation of black women and "bedroom politics."
Radical Education Project
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1969
pamphlet
... you don't become a mother by being a lesbian
Gay Liberation
This segment of the Iowa City-based feminist newspaper, "Ain't I A Woman?" put out by the local chapter of the Women's Liberation Front, focuses on lesbianism and childcare. The two essays argue against lesbians having children. The issue also includes several poems. The author of the essays is unknown.
Women's Liberation Front
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
May 1974
underground press
International Women's Day
Women's Liberation
This flyer promotes the March 8, 1975, International Women's Day demonstration in Boston. It includes several images and quotes from women about various aspects of the discrimination and oppression they feel.
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1971
mimeograph
flyer
The Amigas Club
Gay Liberation
This button advertises the Amigas Club, a gay civic organization in Detroit made up predominantly of middle-class black women.
The Amigas Club
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
unknown
Button
Physical Object
Women’s Liberation + National Liberation Front
War in Vietnam
This image, which combines the female astrological sign for woman with the National Liberation Front flag, represents feminist solidarity against U.S. imperialism and support women's roles in the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam.
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s
Button
Physical Object
Vote Green
Environmentalism
The environmental movement came of age in the 1970s and 1980s. Environmentalism initially emerged out of a myriad of local grassroots actions and organizations. Over time, some "Green" activists moved into electoral politics. This button was created by the national Green Party of the United States in the mid-1980s. In addition to environmentalism, the Green Party also advocated economic justice, racial equality and women's liberation.
Green Party of the United States
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1984
Button
Physical Object
Her Fight is My Fight, Free Angela Davis
Black Power
Angela Davis grew up in the “Dynamite Hill” area of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1944. Later, she moved with her mother to New York City and studied at Brandeis University, the Sorbonne and the University of California-San Diego. In addition to the segregation and racial discrimination she experienced as a child, Davis was deeply influenced by the 1963 murder of four young girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, as well as the activism of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Black Panther Party. In 1968, she joined an all-black branch of the Community Party. The following year, UCLA hired Davis as an assistant professor of philosophy, a contentious appointment given her radical views, ultimately leading to her dismissal.
In the early-1970s, Davis became increasingly active in efforts to improve prison conditions for inmates, including the Soledad Brothers, two African American prisoners and Black Panther Party members, George Jackson and W. L. Nolen, who were incarcerated in the late 1960s. On August 7, 1970, 17-year old Jonathan Jackson, the younger brother of black radical, George Jackson, burst into the Marin County courtroom of Superior Court Judge Harold Haley, where James McClain was on trial for assaulting a guard in the wake of Black prisoner Fred Billingsley’s murder by prison officials in San Quentin Prison in February of 1970. Carrying three guns registered to Angela Davis, Jackson, with the help of McClain and Ruchell Cinque Magee, who was set to testify as a witness in McClain's trial, seized Judge Haley and ordered attorneys, jurors and court officials to lie on the floor. Magee freed another testifying witness, Black Panther William A. Christmas, who also aided in the escape attempt. In addition to their own freedom, the group sought a trade the release of Judge Haley for the “Soledad Brothers,” George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette, who were charged with killing a white prison guard at California’s Soledad Prison. During an effort to flee the courthouse in a van, a shoot-out with police took place, killing Jackson, McClain, Christmas and Judge Haley. Two other hostages, Prosecutor Gary Thomas and juror Maria Elena Graham, were also injured, but survived. Ruchell Magee was the only abductor to survive. Although Davis did not participate in the actual break-out attempt, she became a suspect when it was discovered that the guns used by Jackson were registered in her name. Davis fled to avoid arrest and the FBI placed her on its “most wanted” list. Law enforcement captured her several months later in New York. During her high profile trial, black militants and New Left activists made ‘free Angela” a powerful slogan. In 1972, a jury acquitted Davis on all charges.
Angela Davis Defense Committee
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
Button
Physical Object
Machismo is fascism
Women's Liberation
This Young Lords poster says,
Machismo is fascism – equality for women – women's struggle is the revolution within the Revolution – Equality for Women - Equality Now!! - Enough of oppression – Freedom Now
Young Lords Party
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. mid-1960s
poster