You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution ... – Antique Print
![You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution ..., [1969] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2a/2a66f9b97892-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution .... An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution ...
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The text on this 1969 color poster makes the argument itself: "You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution," with a series of paired lines about freedom fighters and liberators. The Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland in 1966, faced heavy police pressure by 1969, with members arrested in large numbers and several killed in clashes with police. Chicago officers' fatal raid on Party leader Fred Hampton that December made that danger concrete for many activists. Gary Yanker's collection *Prop Art*, published in New York in 1972, included posters like this one and places them within the wider protest graphics of the decade.
| Created / published | [1969] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Protest posters American 1960-1970.Portraits 1960-1970.Prints Color 1960-1970. |
| Notes | Title continues: ... You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Published in: Prop art / Gary Yanker. New York : Darien House, 1972. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. jj / 851004. |
| Subjects | Black Panther Party. African Americans--Civil rights--1960-1970. Revolutionaries--United States--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,161 × 1,462 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216929 |
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