Peace: 50 Years of Protest
Reader's Digest, March 2008
Everyone recognizes it. Wherever it's seen -- from lapel pins to bumper
stickers to banners -- this familiar circle with its upside-down V
makes an immediate anti-war, pro-harmony statement. Peace: 50 Years of Protest highlights the fascinating and eventful history of this well-known symbol. This riveting retrospective features . . .
- The story of its roots -- how British conscientious objector Gerald Holtom designed the symbol as a logo for the 1958 Easter protest march by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
- Its arrival in North America -- how several Americans attended that very first anti-nuclear march in Britain and subsequently brought he new logo back to the United States as an anti-bomb, anti-war symbol
- Pivotal photographic moments of historic protest -- when the peace symbol became a rallying cry for change, from Vietnam to Central America, from Selma to Budapest
- The sign's prominent use in fashion use in fashion, pop art, film, and marketing
hardcover | ISBN: 9780762108930 | Publication Date: March 2008