Posters

Cover of a chapbook by Tejano poet Raymundo “Tigre” Perez. The chapbook features poems primarily in English with a few in Spanish. The cover features an image of a muscular man with muscles and a long mustache illustrated using a brown colored pencil on a white background. The man’s hands are in fists and his wrists are chained. The chains spell out the words “Laredo” and “Texas.” Above the image of the man are the words “Phases by Tigre.”

Poster with a photo of Ricardo Falcon, a Chicano activist who was murdered. Above the photo is the quote “Ricardo Falcon Murio por la Causa,” or Ricardo Falcon died for the Cause. Below the image are two quotes, one saying “We stayed to make him understand that we meant business, that we’re not going to run away anymore,” which is attributed to Falcon during the CU Regents Sit in February 27, 1972, and another undated quote from Falcon saying “We ought to get it on.”

Poster by Cuban artist Olivio Martinez, featuring the word “solidarity” in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic weaved together to stop an incoming bomb.

Poster from the Mexican student movement, featuring a woman, presumably a mother, with her hands over her eyes looking over a deceased body. Below the illustration is the text “¡Detrás de cada estudiante muerto, hay una madre… que clama justicia!” meaning “behind every dead student, there is a mother… crying out for justice.” Below this quote, it says “Tlatelolco 2 de Octubre,” referencing the Tlatelolco massacre on October 2, 1968 in which the military opened fire on student protestors in the Plaza de Tres Culturas.

Pencil illustration of Eduardo “Pancho” Cruz by James Parker. Above the illustration is the quote by Cruz that reads, “Hubiera creido que ya, a esta hora, la mera presencia de cadenas serian tan intolerable que el pueblo se levantaria para romperlas,” and its English translation, “I would have thought that by this time the mere sight of chains would be so intolerable that the people would rise to break them.”

Pencil illustration of two hands and a broken chain. Drawing from a student from Colegio Jacinto Trevino.

Print of a man with the quote “luchar por una patria mejor o morir por ella” meaning “Fight for a better country or die for it.” This quote is attributed to Jenaro Vasquez, potentially referring to Genaro Vázquez Rojas, a Mexican school teacher, organiser, militant, and guerrilla fighter. Below this is the phrase “prepa popular.”

Flyer for a farmworkers’ movement conference in Nyssa, Oregon

Flyer for event called “500 Years of Colonization and Resistance in Indio – America – Discovery or Invasion?” hosted by the Partido Nacional de La Raza Unida, or National United Peoples Party, a political party centered on Chicano nationalism.

This drawing features the profile of an unknown man. The bottom of the drawing has cut-off text that says “USADE FOR JUSTICE,” presumably cut off from “CRUSADE FOR JUSTICE.”

Poster with the words struggle + organize + struggle with CHICANOs written across the bottom.

Poster featuring an image of two children and the 1969 poem “Stupid America” by Chicano poet Abelardo “Lalo” Delgado. The poster also features a stamp that says “STAMPED SUB-QUALITY BY U.S. DEPT OF AMERICA.”