Vince Dugar has sent me a few photos of posters and handbills that he and I will hang on the walls March 11. I went by his house last week and got to look through his assorted collections. Many great items, and many other causes and opinions missing (no People’s Park, Free Speech, or Anti-Nuke, etc. items). But he has some amazing gems, including an original SF Diggers’ “1% FREE” poster as well as a bluntly defiant handbill calling for black men to avoid the Vietnam draft. The show will be featured in the SF Weekly Events Cal in a few weeks, and things are moving along well with compiling the work from all the other artists. Enjoy the pics!
At the height of the Vietnam draft, many radical groups saw the conflict as a war fought by peeople of color for rich white men. This handbill bluntly attmpts to tell the young black men of the era what they’re getting.
A hand bill from the Cortland Latin Youth Organization in the Mission Dist. of SF. Probably from the 1970s.
poster artist:Â Earl Newman, media: silk-screen, date: c. 1964-1966
Vince just purchased this original SF Digger 1% FREE poster. I have been told that this poster was stenciled, so I will finally get to inspect one to see! The “1%” term was a patch that Hells Angels wore to show that they were the 1% of Harley riders who weren’t law-abiding citizens.
