1968 This Time Vote Like Homer Pitts’ Whole World Depends On It Nixon

Date: 1968
Artist: Unknown
Size (in): 23.75” x 18.25”
Size (cm): 60.3 x 46.4
Condition: B-
Linen backed: Yes 

This vintage original poster was issued by the Nixon-Agnew Campaign in 1968 as part of the Republican candidates outreach to African American voters. Homer Pitts was a fictional African American college student created by the Nixon campaign in 1968 and depicted on this poster in a neatly pressed letterman sweater with a bundle of textbooks under his arm. This image offered perhaps an alternative vision to the tumultuous summer of 1968 that saw widespread rioting following the killing of Martin Luther King in April of that year. This poster is rarely seen and was probably not printed or circulated in large numbers as Nixon only won about 5% of the African American vote in 1968.

The lower left hand corner indicates “Lincoln Graphic Arts, Inc.”. This poster has been professionally backed to linen with some expert touchup and repair completed. Tears without loss of paper on both the right and left sides of the poster have been skillfully repaired as have pinholes on all four corners. The poster had some sort tears and abrasions on the edges which have corrected. The poster displays nicely and overall condition is very good.