Signs and signboards

Sign directly opposite the Sojourner Truth, a federal housing project, in Detroit, Michigan. A riot was caused by white neighbors' attempt to prevent African American tenants from moving in. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit. Library of Congress Photo Number: LC-USW-3-1.

Line of people, African American and white, carrying signs that are anti-Jim Crow practices. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit.

Group of people carrying signs for American democracy in Poland. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit.

Demonstrators from the American League for Peace and Democracy form a picket line in front of the German Consulate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to protest against Nazi Germany's interference and annexation of the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia. An unidentified woman in a gas mask holds a sign reading "Hands Off Czechoslovakia."  From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit.

Look behind the mask! Communism is death. Anti-communist poster depicting Stalin. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit. Library of Congress Photo Number: LC-USZ62-80757.

Sign on window of Irene Fashions in New York City lowering prices of entire stock. The sign indicates it is in compliance with President Harry S. Truman's program, probably referring to his November 17, 1947 speech. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit.

Group carrying signs asking for jobs, evidently after World War II. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit.

Group of people from Screen Publicists Guild carrying signs asking President Harry S. Truman to veto the Taft-Hartley anti-labor bill. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit.

No GOP, No Meat, No Sugar, No Butter, No Crisco, No Lard, No Oil, No Nothin, a closed sign on a grocery store. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit.

Men carrying signs demanding Jewish police in Palestine. The signs are directed toward England's attention. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit.