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Africa: The Kremlin’s Playground (American illustration, 1987)
Text: Africa: The Kremlin’s Playground. Year: 1987. Publisher: Family Protection Scoreboard. Artist: NA. Additional Information: Pro-apartheid map from 1987 purporting to show the growing influence of communism across Africa. Communist countries are shaded red, non-communist dictatorships shaded green, and democracies, republics and monarchies shaded blue. The map was published in a special edition of the…
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Martin Luther King at a Communist Training School (American billboard, 1965)
Text: Martin Luther King at a Communist Training School. Year: 1965 Publisher: John Birch Society. Artist: NA. Additional Information: American billboard in Alabama, 1965, claiming to show Martin Luther King at a ‘Communist Training School’. The photo was taken in 1957 and shows King at a workshop at Tennessee’s Highlander Folk School, which was founded…
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For what avail the plough or sail (American poster, ca. 1942)
Text: Freedom from want, Freedom from fear, Freedom of religion, Freedom of speech. For what avail the plough or sail / Or land or life if freedom fail? Year: ca. 1942. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional Information: Poster depicts Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kai-shek with the ‘Four Freedoms’. Lines from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem…
