James Campbell Posters

Link to Lowcountry Digital Library online collection. The digitized portion of the James E. Campbell papers consists of 107 posters that were collected by Campbell throughout his life. Campbell (1925-2021) was a native of Charleston, South Carolina and went on to become a revolutionary organizer, activist and educator. He worked alongside notable figures such as Amiri Baraka, Jack O’Dell, and Malcolm X, with whom he co-founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity in 1964. Many of the posters in his papers were collected during Campbell’s sojourn in Tanzania from 1973-1982 and cover topics like anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-apartheid, women’s liberation and the African Independence movement. Campbell’s physical collection includes correspondence, materials on his professional activities, writings, photographs, publications, clippings and subject files dated from between 1930-2009.