Evers for Governor
1971
Artist
Designer Unknown
DIMENSIONS
17 x 14 in. (43.2 x 35.6 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.2025.938
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Black, Election, Man, Political, White
This poster by an unknown designer was issued by Charles Evers’s 1971 campaign for the governorship of Mississippi. Evers was a civil rights activist who became the first Black mayor of Fayette, Mississippi, in 1969, six years after his brother, Medgar Evers, the NAACP Field Secretary for the state, was assassinated in his driveway. The simple design of this poster with sans serif lettering in white on a black ground reinforces its basic message that the choice of candidate is not about either color.
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