[CIVIL RIGHTS]--[MAO TSE TUNG].
Sale 994 - African Americana
Feb 23, 2022
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Live / Cincinnati
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[CIVIL RIGHTS]--[MAO TSE TUNG].
The Evil System of Colonialism and Imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes. Chinese propaganda poster. [Shanghai]: [Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House], [China International Bookstore], ca 1968.
42 X 30 1/4 in. poster (light wear at edges, rebacked on rice paper). Publisher's information printed in Chinese at lower margin: "上海人民美术出版社出版, 中国国际书店发行" [Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe chuban, Zhongguo guoji shudian faxing].
A Chinese propaganda poster intended for an American Black audience. With a "Statement by comrade Mao Tse-Tung...in support of the Afro-American Struggle against violent repression. (April 14, 1968)." Illustrated with Black Americans protesting with torches and rifles, the Capitol building in Washington is visible in the distance.
42 X 30 1/4 in. poster (light wear at edges, rebacked on rice paper). Publisher's information printed in Chinese at lower margin: "上海人民美术出版社出版, 中国国际书店发行" [Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe chuban, Zhongguo guoji shudian faxing].
A Chinese propaganda poster intended for an American Black audience. With a "Statement by comrade Mao Tse-Tung...in support of the Afro-American Struggle against violent repression. (April 14, 1968)." Illustrated with Black Americans protesting with torches and rifles, the Capitol building in Washington is visible in the distance.
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