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Lot 96

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$400 - 600
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$413
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[SOUTH AFRICA]. A group of 3 Anti-Apartheid posters, comprising:


CUSHING, Lincoln, artist. End Apartheid. Berkeley, CA: Inkworks Press, 1985. 22 x 18 in., poster (toning to top right corner resulting from tape on verso, light edge wear). A man's face and hands are superimposed over South Africa, with text reading, "South Africa / Must Be Free / Divest Now." Issued by the Bay Area Free South Africa Movement (BAFSAM), an anti-apartheid organization established in 1984. The group, born from demonstrations against the unloading of South African cargo from ships docked in San Francisco, began meeting regularly at East Oakland's First Universe Baptist Church and emphasized similarities between the racism and oppression in South Africa and the racism and economic oppression facing African Americans in California.

[With:] MONTOYA, Malaquias, artist. Hey Soweto. N.p.: Tolbert Small, 1977. 23 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. poster (some wear, including dampstaining, creasing, short tears to margins). The poster features Tolbert Small's poem, Hew Soweto, comprised of four columns of text against a backdrop depicting South African warriors with spears behind barbed wire. The poem contrasts life under apartheid with life before South Africa's colonization. Copyrighted lower right by Dr. Tolbert Small, who ran a medical clinic for the Black Panther Party.

[Also with:] DAVIS, Lenora, and BREEN, Axie, artists. Freeing South Africa, Freeing Ourselves. N.p.: Salsedo Press, [1985]. 23 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. poster (light creasing, light edge wear). A poster produced by the Free South Africa Movement, with partial funding by the Playboy Foundation, featuring a rendering of two hands, one bound by chains and the other by rope, each freeing the other.

Together, 3 posters.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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