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n.p., 1967. First Edition. Poster. Poster, 14 x 14 inches. Heavy white stock printed in black ink. 8 helmeted policemen gang-rape Justice, holding scales, and Liberty. Cieciorka (1939-2008) was artist, painter and political activist. He is best known for the woodcut image of the raised fist, which was a model for the New Left emblem. He was a Freedom Rider in the 1960s and helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1968. First edition (first printing), presumed. A very good copy which has been rolled. Some edge foxing.

NP: Frank Cieciorka, [1967].. Poster. Woodcut printed in blue on offwhite paper. 18 x 18 inches. Eight helmeted policemen gangrape figures of Justice (blindfolded, holding scales) and Liberty (crowned with spikes, holding a torch). Cieciorka was an activist in the civil rights and anti-war movements in the 1960s. His iconic woodcut image of a raised fist is perhaps his best-known work. Poster has been folded once horizontally, otherwise Fine.

n.p.: n.p., 1968. Very good +.. Infamous image of a personified Justice and Statue of Liberty being graphically assaulted by a gang of laughing police officers, under the eye of an American eagle. By the artist best known for his iconic woodcut of a clenched fist, an enduring image of the New Left used by anti-draft protestors, Black Panthers, and others. This image was also distributed in a better-known, larger poster that was described at a 1968 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing as "one of the most vile, obscene pieces of literature that I have seen disseminated in San Francisco" by Examiner reporter Edward S. Montgomery. Original print, 5.5'' x 8'' approx. Purple ink on heavy textured paper. Toning to edges; minor edgewear. Very good plus or better.