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Handwriting On the Wall, no. 2

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Title

Handwriting On the Wall, no. 2

Subject

New Left

Description

This SDS poster as a "wall newspaper" which was posted on city streets in Chicago by members of the group as a means of circulating their political agenda in the wake of the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. This poster, the second in a series, discusses protests, skirmishes with police and strategy for upcoming activism.

Creator

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Source

Roz Payne

Publisher

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date

1968

Format

"wall newspaper"

Collection

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Citation

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), “Handwriting On the Wall, no. 2,” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed April 16, 2025, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/679.

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