Vintage Posters

1970s Anti-capital-punishment protest poster flyer urging for "right to life" for convicted man Robert Cline of Rhode Island, who's death sentence was eventually overturned when Rhode Island's Supreme Court ruled that the law imposing the death penalty for murder committed by inmates in state prisons was unconstitutional. (Source: State v. Cline, 397 A.2d 1309 (R.I. 1979). and Washington Post February 19, 1979). Artist George Knowlton (who's studio was the Flats Workshop)"was an artist and instructor in the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition Prison Arts Program in Kingston, Rhode Island." (Source: NYPL - Black Emergency Cultural Coalition records 1971-1984).