This austere monochrome poster based on a photograph of Malcolm X making a speech was published by the Third World Committee of the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC), an extremely effective nationwide organization of students founded in 1966 and dedicated to ending the Vietnam War. The quotation here is taken from a speech he made on June 6, 1964. Malcolm X was a charismatic and controversial Black leader who powerfully expressed the frustrations and rage of African Americans during the key period of the civil rights movement between 1955 and 1965, when he was assassinated. He remained a potent motivating figure in the political protest movements of the 1960s and ‘70s.