# US civil rights era sheets, cartoons and photographs, 1954–1969

This gallery collects 27 records from the FRAME snapshot dated 1954 to 1969 that speak to American race relations or the war on poverty: thirteen U.S. Information Agency sheets made for audiences abroad, one JUSPAO poster from Vietnam, ten Washington Star cartoons by Jim Berryman, and three private items. Cards run in date order and show the identifier the archive records.

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  US civil rights era sheets, cartoons and photographs, 1954–1969
  This gallery collects 27 records from the FRAME snapshot dated 1954 to 1969 that speak to American race relations or the war on poverty: thirteen U.S. Information Agency sheets made for audiences abroad, one JUSPAO poster from Vietnam, ten Washington Star cartoons by Jim Berryman, and three private items. Cards run in date order and show the identifier the archive records.

Content note: some cards quote segregationist signs, a 1969 poster that calls the police "pigs," and captions that use the word "Negro." Card titles are the archive's catalog titles, unchanged.

The grid puts three kinds of maker side by side. The government sheets are the U.S. Information Agency's: Lincoln posters for Asia and Iran, picture pages from Beirut, Dacca and Accra, an embassy bulletin for Costa Rica, and a Free World supplement for Manila. One JUSPAO poster from Vietnam is here for its phrase "the war against poverty." The cartoons are Jim Berryman's for the Washington Evening Star, kept in the Records of the U.S. Senate. The private items are two photographs, the March on Washington and the Little Rock rally of August 1959, and one poster, the Black Panther Party's memorial for Fred Hampton.

A sheet is here when its text or its catalog description is about race in America, a civil rights measure, or the war on poverty. The agency's Lincoln sheets are included because each prints the Emancipation Proclamation or the words "all men are created equal." Berryman cartoons that mention civil rights only as one item among many, like the 1958 fence-mending candidate with "Integration" on one rail, are included so the run is complete. The archive holds Arabic and French editions of several Beirut sheets; only the English editions are shown.

Where this site has an essay, the card opens it. Otherwise it opens the FRAME record. If the line under the title says "no primary id in the snapshot," the record gives no NARA number, and none is supplied here. The snapshot holds no Citizens' Council or Klan leaflet from these years and no domestic antipoverty poster; the parent page, US civil rights era messaging, 1954–1969, says where those subjects are covered instead.

  United StatesHeroes Day Posters: Lincoln, 'All men are created equal' (English poster distributed in Asia)August 6, 1954 · NAID 5729969; Record Group 306United StatesAnba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 34/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)August 25, 1954 · NAID 6948744; Record Group 306United StatesAbraham Lincoln poster, 47: The Great Emancipator (Nepali poster distributed in Asia)1956 · NAID 6948836; Record Group 306United StatesSmothered!July 7, 1956 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743224United StatesNo jury trial for the likes of youJune 16, 1957 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743242United StatesThe Place is full of Simon Legrees!June 22, 1957 · NAID 5743243United StatesMaybe they can beat the Yankees!September 26, 1957 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743251United StatesChitra Katha photo poster No. 37: Hoffman-Boston school students, Virginia (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)April 8, 1958 · NAID 6948817; Record Group 306United StatesRoadblock...Or Repair Work Ahead?June 21, 1958 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743262United StatesWith this Issue I couldn't loseJuly 31, 1958 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743268United StatesTough year for fence mending!September 20, 1958 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743272United StatesWall News poster, Lincoln 150th birth anniversary (Farsi, Tehran)1959 · NAID 6948874; Record Group 306United StatesFree World Pictorial poster: Lincoln 150th anniversary supplement (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)May 19, 1959 · NAID 6949147; Record Group 306United StatesCrowd at the Arkansas State Capitol protesting school integration, with signs reading "Race mixing is Communism," Little Rock, ArkansasAugust 20, 1959 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesWhat does he know about "Depressed Areas?"March 13, 1961 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743288United StatesA Flower Tries to Grow in BirminghamMay 14, 1963 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743297United StatesCivil rights March on Washington, D.C.August 28, 1963 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesLet Me Through!September 29, 1963 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743298United StatesOutlook poster, African students on campus (English poster distributed in Accra)July 2, 1964 · NAID 6949223; Record Group 306United StatesPictures in the News poster, No. 3 (English, Beirut)December 31, 1964 · NAID 6949206; Record Group 306United StatesEl Correo Grafico poster, Alliance third anniversary (Spanish, San Jose)January 1, 1965 · NAID 6949242; Record Group 306United StatesPictures in the News poster, No. 4 (English, Beirut)January 28, 1965 · NAID 6949204; Record Group 306United StatesA New Quest for Union poster, Free World supplement (English, Manila)February 8, 1965 · NAID 6949247; Record Group 306United StatesPictures in the News poster, No. 5 (English, Beirut)March 12, 1965 · NAID 6949200; Record Group 306United StatesPictures in the News poster, No. 7 (English poster distributed in Beirut)June 20, 1965 · NAID 6949193; Record Group 306United StatesMột chiến sĩ trong trận giặc chống nghèo (A Soldier in the War Against Poverty)1965 · NAID 561393United StatesYou can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution ...1969 · no primary id in the snapshot

Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/civil-rights-era-messaging/posters/