Free the San Quentin 6. [Drop title].

Prison Solidarity Committee], (n. d.), circa 1972. 18-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches. Broadside. White stock printed in blue, red and black. Multiple pinholes with some loss to corners; light rubbing to bottom edge. Good. An uncommon poster designed by Bay Area artist and activist Jane Norling, likely at Peoples Press, featuring an image of the San Quentin Six outside a partially torn down prison wall, with cheering prisoners streaming out of the opening behind them. A Spanish-language version of the poster was also issued, which was signed in the print by Norling. Both versions of the poster were advertised in From Soledad to San Quentin, a pamphlet issued circa 1972 by the Prison Solidarity Committee (who had the same address as that printed in the poster); a b&w version of the poster is the centerfold for the pamphlet, and a note on the inside cover states, "Color posters of the San Quentin Six, in Spanish and English, are available at 50 cents apiece. All donations are welcome and needed." The text reads: "Johnny Larry Spain, Willie Tate, Hugo Pinell, David Johnson, Fleeta Drumgo, and Luis Talamantes -- accused of the murder of 3 guards and 2 inmates on August 21, 1971, as a cover-up of the real incident in which prison guards murdered George Jackson and fired indiscriminately into the cell block. Support the 6. Bring the Real Criminals to Justice." San Francisco's Peoples Press, founded by Terry Cannon, Frank Cieciorca and Robert Gabriner, published, among numerous other social and environmental justice works, the North American edition of Tricontinental; Norling, a member of Peoples Press at the time of this publication, is one of eight women who designed posters for the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL), the Cuban publisher of Tricontinental. OCLC locates two probable holdings, at Northwestern and the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands, and we find others at OMCA, the Roz Payne archive, and one likely candidate at the Bancroft.