Judy A. Seidman
American, born 1951, active in Botswana and South Africa
Africa Shall Be Free: We Shall Free Her
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Judy A. Seidman
American, born 1951, active in Botswana and South Africa1980/83
Africa Shall Be Free: We Shall Free Her
Judy A. Seidman American, born 1951, active in Botswana and South Africa →Medu Art Ensembleprint
Date
1980/83
Medium
Screenprint in gray and brown on white wove paper
Dimensions
42.6 × 60.5 cm (16 13/16 × 23 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Artworkers Retirement Society
This poster commemorates Freedom Day, observed by South Africa’s African National Congress and other organizations sympathetic to the struggle against apartheid. June 26, which appears in the bottom right, was the date of a nationwide protest in 1950 to honor 18 black South Africans killed a month prior during an International Workers’ Day strike. The strapping man and woman depicted, each with a rifle on their back, signal the idea of militant resistance against the forces of apartheid.
Today, Freedom Day is a national holiday in South Africa, celebrated on April 27 in remembrance of the country’s first democratic election.
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