Serigraph poster, Voting Rights by Shepard Fairey from his American Civics series. Features a portrait of Fannie Lee Chaney (1921-2007) by Jim Marshall. Chaney was a restaurant baker then became a civil rights activist after her son James Chaney was murdered in 1964 in Mississippi by the Ku Klux Klan. Two others were killed with Chaney as voting rights activists, Michael Schwemer and Andrew Goodman.
This is a collage of images. The central image is based on Jim Mashall's portait of Fannie Lee Chaney. In the upper left corner is a portion of the missing person's poster issued by the FBI that depicts Goodman and James Earl's portratis. In the upper right corne is a newspaper, Student Voice, with partial headline". . .ights Workers/. . .Ill Missing" with images of burned car." Left edge center are the letters, ". . .rotect/ Yourse. /. ..om this menace/ Ku-Klux-Kl/ Anti-Je. . ./Anti-Ne. . ./Anti-Cathol. . ./Anti-Foreig. . /Anti-Labo". Left edge bottom, photograph of store front and steps with Black man and children, "olored" printed over door visible. Lower left corner, "Death to all race Mixers." Right edge center "American Vote" and circular symbol for "March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom August 8, 1963" with dark and pale hands shaking in center.
See also 2013.0003 for Jim Marshall photograph of Fannie Lee Chaney.
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