Cleaver for President
date: label: Date made
content: 1968
name: label: depicted
content: Cleaver, Eldridge
label: referenced
content: Black Panther Party
label: referenced
content: Peace and Freedom Party
label: maker
content: Jamerson Printing Company
notes: label: Description
content: A 1968 poster stating Eldridge Cleaver, a leader in the Black Panthers, was running for president of the United States in 1968 as a candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party.
label: Description
content: This poster has a black background and white text. At the top of the poster are the words "Cleaver for President of the United States of America." The words "for" and "of" are in lowercase and the other words are in uppercase. At the left side of the poster is a head shot of Eldridge Cleaver, a Black man with a goatee and his hair in a small afro. To the right of Cleaver's image is the slogan "power to the PEOPLE . . . black power to BLACK PEOPLE!" At the bottom of the poster is the symbol of the Peace and Freedom Party, a circle with a white background. Inside the circle is a black dove symbolizing peace. On either side of the dove are links from a broken chain, symbolizing freedom. Below the dove are the words "PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY." At the bottom of the poster printed in uppercase letters are the words "BLACK PANTHER PARTY/ PEACE & FREEDOM PARTY."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: used
content: Political Campaigns
label: associated subject
content: Civil Rights Movement
label: associated subject
content: Black Power Movement
label: associated subject
content: African American
label: associated subject
content: African American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
label: See more items in
content: Princeton Posters
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Martha Warshaw, Gregg Warshaw
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0212.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0212
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0212.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black; white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 17 in; 55.88 cm x 43.18 cm