r/PropagandaPosters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978\_California\_Proposition\_6

Image by French Illustrator and Art Deco Designer Paul Iribe during World War I. It's title references the Bible story of Salome dancing for the severed head of John the Baptist. The skeleton is "Death Personified" dancing for the bloody severed head of Kaiser Wilhelm II, The German Emperor.

Walking is a crime in Alabama, Write Attorney General Brownell, Demand Federal Protection of Civil Rights. It was issued by the Florence Fair Employment Practices Committee during the Civil Rights Movement.

This image was produced during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, when people were being arrested for peaceful protest actions. Local Black ministers and pastors served as the primary organizers and community leaders. They were routinely arrested on conspiracy and illegal boycotting charges for leading peaceful demonstrations.

Commonly known as the "rose garden" poster, this 1971 USMC tagline was inspired by the Lynn Anderson country song of the same name.

This campaign leaned into grit, discipline and the harsher realities of military training. It purposely contrasted with the lifestyle angle that was used by other military branches at the end of Vietnam. This was also the first time the legendary tagline "The Marines are Looking for a Few Good Men" was used. It remained a core recruiting slogan for decades.

The drill instructor is Sgt. Charles "Chuck" Taliano Jr. The photo was taken from an earlier training manual in 1968. It was later adopted as a primary visual for this campaign.