To Speak Up for Democracy, Read Up on Democracy – Vintage Print
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Step back in time with To Speak Up for Democracy, Read Up on Democracy, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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To Speak Up for Democracy, Read Up on Democracy
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The slogan turns on a simple pairing: speaking up for democracy depends on knowing what it is. Its message, that citizens should become informed before they advocate, belongs to a long American tradition that gained urgency during the 1930s and 1940s, when libraries, schools and government agencies promoted reading about civic ideals as the countries of Europe and Asia moved toward authoritarian rule. Posters like this one framed reading as a patriotic act, a way for ordinary people to defend the system they valued. The image is worth studying for how it puts a civic duty into a few words.
| Original scan | 4,374 × 6,779 px · prints to 15 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 18562u |
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