Black History Poster

Black History Research

Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott was the first African Canadian doctor. His father, Wilson R. Abbott, was a very determined man. Wilson was the child of recently freed parents, who traveled to the north hoping to find a better life. His father moved to Alabama and opened up a store. Then in fear of losing his store to White Ruffians he moved to Canada. He had a son named Anderson.
Anderson Abbott was educated in one of the most successful black settlements in Canada. He was one of the first to graduate of the schools that William King started. He then went on to study medicine at the University of Toronto, and then became a licensed doctor. The first African Canadian to receive a license to practice medicine from the Medical Board of Upper Canada. He received this license in 1861.
Anderson became a very important member of the black community, just like his father. He fought against racism and racially segregated schools in Toronto. Anderson Abbott also became the first black man to be appointed coroner in Kent County, Ontario in 1874. In 1883 Abbott took his medical practice to Dundas, Ontario. There he became popular within the community. He was a trustee of the high school and chairman of the internal management committee from 1885 until 1889.
Abbott believed that it was essential for blacks to have better access to a higher level of education.


"It is just as natural for two races living together on the same soil to blend as it is for the waters of two river tributaries to mingle." –Anderson Ruffin Abbott.

Propaganda Posters

Mao Zedong was a military and political leader in China. He started the Communist Party of China. Mao is a very controversial and was labelled a radical activist. He was influenced by the Russian revolution and believed that Nationalists were vulnerable economically and politically. In 1962 he prompted the Socialist Education Movement. Mao was in many propaganda posters in the early half of the Cultural Revolution. The propaganda posters of Mao were designed by his army.
Mao Zedong had been put into propaganda posters since the 1940’s. There are many posters showing Mao as “super person.” They show him as a great family man, a Wiseman and a great leader. Some posters show him surrounded by other people. The people around him all have the same body type, and are dressed in worker or peasant colours. Their faces all look very similar. In every poster Mao is shown surrounded by red and usually had a light colour surrounded his head like a halo that lit up individuals around him. No grey or black was allowed to be used while shading him.

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This is a propaganda posters showing Vladimir Lenin. Lenin was a Russian communist. Vladimir joined the Marxist group and led the October Revolution. He was the first person to become head of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. While Russia was under Lenin they established the first government department for women and became the first country to decriminalize homosexuality. In 1919 he and Bolshevik lead the Communist International. Many political groups tried to overthrow the communist government.
Many of the propaganda posters depicting Lenin show him as being bigger than everything else. The posters show crowds of people at Lenin’s feet, usually all wearing the same thing. They also show a lot of buildings and technology. This shows the revolution that was going on while Lenin was in charge.