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Anti-Apartheid Poster Collection

The Anti-Apartheid Poster Collection includes posters created by the African National Congress (ANC) and other non-governmental organizations and entities. The posters were created between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s and cover various aspects of the resistance to the South African system of racial segregation known as apartheid.

The anti-apartheid posters are a subset of the much larger collection of posters from and about Africa held by the IU Libraries.Posters can be consulted in the African Studies Collection office in the Herman B Wells Library, Room E660. Instructors should contact the librarian about using posters in their instruction.

Apartheid is a Monster.

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On white backgound, colored drawing of a monster in a green, yellow and red backgound; Title in yellow and red with balck border and black.…

Release Mandela.

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white background; text in black; picture of Nelson Mandela in high contrast; price pencilled in front top right corner

Nelson Mandela is Free But We Cannot Vote. End Apartheid Vote for the People.

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Black background on the left and white on the right; text white on the left and black on the right; black and white picture of Nelson Mandela in the…

You Cannot Extinguish the Intense Flame of Life. Fight Apartheid.

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White background; Shapes in yellow orange and red representing flames surrounding the African continent in black Quotation by Steve Biko on the bottom…

Fight South African Racism.

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Backgound: white; 3 color print of downward clenched fists crushing the words in the lower part of the image; the top part of the print has the word…

Breaks the Links U.S. - Apartheid

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Drawing of a creaming face breaking chain links; 2 chain links function as the dash between U.S. and Apartheid in the title;

Apartheid: How Much Longer?

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Backgound white; colored drawing signed M. Garcia of a man with a raised fist with a chain crossing the image. Title is part of the drawing. Quotation…

Apartheid Dehumanizes.

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Backgound: white; Title in red over b&w image of segregationists signs and items. Quotation from A Window on Soweto by Joyce Sikakane in the left…

Stop the Hand of the Apartheid Hangman!

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6 b&w photographs of ANC freedom fighters sentenced to death with stylized #6 in the background; backgound colors: black on top and bottom shading…

The Freedom Charter.

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Text of the Freedom Charter adopted by the Congress of the People on June 26, 1955; title in black; subtitle in green; title of sections in white on…