1960s Protest Posters on the Internet Archive
The protest poster was the social media of the 1960s: a cheap, reproducible, visually striking medium for broadcasting political messages to mass audiences. Movements for civil rights, against the Vietnam War, and for women's liberation all developed distinctive visual languages through poster art.
The Internet Archive holds digitized protest posters from around the world, including American civil rights graphics, French May '68 silkscreens, Cuban revolutionary art, and anti-apartheid materials from South Africa. These posters demonstrate how graphic design serves political communication.
For designers and activists, 1960s protest posters remain a masterclass in visual communication under constraints: limited colors, cheap printing, urgent deadlines, and the need to communicate complex political positions in a single glance.
From the Archive
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American Posters of Protest 1966-70
"American Posters of Protest" was the sixth exhibition of the New School Art Center's series: "Art as a Political Weapon," which ran from October 12 through December 4, 1971 in New York City. From the
XSCREEN Materialen Uber Den Underground Film
Underground movie series in Cologne, Germany from 1968-70s. The fourth exprmntl film festival in Knokke, Belgium in 1967 took place as the street and party politics of the 1960s intensified. [i] The i
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