Shirley Chisholm

Bring U.S. Together, presidential campaign poster, 1972 The cleverest move here is two letters in red. Setting U.S. apart inside Bring U.S. Together turns a stock unity slogan into a play on us and the country at once, and the stacked, condensed black type below hits Chisholm's name hardest of all. A plain, mid-sentence photograph of the candidate sits between the two blocks of type, with no flags or bunting. The last line borrows the title of her 1970 autobiography, Unbought and Unbossed, so the poster sells a personality as much as a campaign. Printed by N.G. Slater Corporation, it is now held by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian.