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Come Let Us Build a New World Together
In 1963, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) issued this poster featuring Danny Lyon's evocative photograph, along with the appeal to "Come Let Us Build a New World Together." Priced at a dollar, it was the first in a series of such posters designed to raise funds for SNCC's civil rights initiatives and to carry the organization's message to a wide and largely youthful audience. Offered for sale at rallies and through SNCC's newspaper, The Student Voice, the print run of 10,000 posters sold out quickly. Rather than depicting the action of a single individual, the poster's image celebrates group-centered leadership in which everyone works and struggles together, side by side.
Mark Suckle, after Danny Lyon, 1963 |