Leaflets (Double V)
Morris Topchevsky
1945
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Morris Topchevsky painted Leaflets when he was an art instructor at the Abraham Lincoln Centre in Chicago, where the majority of students were Black. Here we see African Americans holding posters with a V imprinted on them, in the spirit of the Double V campaign, whose rallying cry was “Democracy at Home, Victory Abroad,” mounted by the African American newspaper Philadelphia Courier in 1942. Like almost all his best-known work, it reflects his dedication to the cause of organized labor.
Credits
Used by permission of the Bernard Friedman chicago modern Collection.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 9.
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