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Attica Brigade Long Live the Spirit of Attica. Support the Brothers' Demands. Attica Means Fight Back!

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09893.04 Author/Creator: Attica Brigade Place Written: s.l. Type: Poster Date: circa 1973-1974 Pagination: 1 poster Height: 57.4 cm, Width: 43.3 cm Order a Copy

One poster entitled, "Long Live the Spirit of Attica. Support the Brothers' Demands," dated approximately 1973-1974. Features an image of an Attican prison inmate, Elliott "L.D." Barkley and a printed statement by him.

Barkley, Elliott James, 1950-1971
1945 to the Present
Activism
African American History
African Americans
First Amendment
Mass Incarceration
Prison Reform
Protests
Race discrimination
The Seventies

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