National Student Moratorium May 5th Protest Poster
San Francisco: Student Mobilization Committee, 1970
Offset lithograph on paper - 22 x 17 inches.
 
Issued for the National Student Moratorium of May 5, 1970, this powerful poster was produced in response to the shootings at Kent State University, Jackson State College, and Augusta. Centered by a bold red raised fist against a stark black field, the design memorializes the slain students while calling for an end to American military involvement in Southeast Asia. Its forceful typography and restrained palette transformed a simple graphic into one of the defining visual statements of the nationwide student strike movement.
 
Published by the Student Mobilization Committee, the principal organization coordinating antiwar demonstrations across the United States, the poster exemplifies the direct and uncompromising graphic language of Vietnam-era protest art. Widely distributed to campuses and demonstration organizers, it remains an iconic artifact of one of the largest waves of student activism in American history.
 
Condition: Excellent, with only light handling wear.