Featuring our “Stick a Flower In It” graphic. Inspired by the civil rights movement and a planet without war, we’re loud and proud, hopeful and altruistic, pushing for a more equitable world.
Ready for the streets, the gym or your couch, this 100% airlume cotton t-shirt keeps you looking great and feeling comfy all day.
Giving Back
100% of profits from every sale of this product goes to supporting the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center), a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people. Learn more about their work at splcenter.org/
The Details
Wash, wear, love, repeat!
• 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton
• Unisex fit suited for a range of body types
• Full-color print feels soft to the touch and won’t fade with washing
• Sweatshop free Bella+Canvas tee, made in the USA with virtually zero waste manufacturing
• Care Instructions: Machine wash warm inside out with like colors using phosphate-free detergent. Machine dry. Do not iron decoration. Do not dry clean.
About the photo that inspired this tee
Flower Power is a historic photograph taken by American photographer Bernie Boston for the now-defunct Washington Star newspaper. It was nominated for the 1967 Pulitzer Prize. Taken on October 21, 1967, during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's March on the Pentagon, the iconic photo shows a Vietnam War protestor placing a carnation into the barrel of a rifle held by a soldier of the 503rd Military Police Battalion.
In a 2006 interview, Bernie remembers thinking things could have got ugly when all of a sudden, “this young man appeared with flowers and proceeded . . . [to] put them down the rifle barrel,” Boston told National Public Radio. “And I was on the wall so I could see all this, and I just started shooting.”
In 1967, the same year he captured Flower Power, Boston was commissioned to shoot a portrait of former Black Panther H. Rap Brown. Noticing the trend of a call for civil rights in the late 1960s, Boston took more images of the Civil Rights Movement, including a portrait of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. during his Poor People's Campaign, and other history-making events.
Boston also photographed every American president from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton. He taught photojournalism classes at Northern Virginia Community College and Rochester Institute of Technology. Boston died on January 22, 2008, of amyloidosis, a rare blood disease with which he had been diagnosed in 2006.
Many debates have been brought up as to the identity of the young demonstrator placing the carnations in the gun barrels on that day. According to a 2007 Washington Post article by David Montgomery, his name is George Edgerly Harris III. Harris was a young actor from New York, about 18 years old. Harris died in the early 1980s during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.
Source
https://www.vintag.es/2017/09/be-flower-in-gun-story-behind-historic.html?m=1
Featuring our “Stick a Flower In It” graphic. Inspired by the civil rights movement and a planet without war, we’re loud and proud, hopeful and altruistic, pushing for a more equitable world.
Ready for the streets, the gym or your couch, this 100% airlume cotton t-shirt keeps you looking great and feeling comfy all day.
Giving Back
100% of profits from every sale of this product goes to supporting the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center), a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people. Learn more about their work at splcenter.org/
The Details
Wash, wear, love, repeat!
• 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton
• Unisex fit suited for a range of body types
• Full-color print feels soft to the touch and won’t fade with washing
• Sweatshop free Bella+Canvas tee, made in the USA with virtually zero waste manufacturing
• Care Instructions: Machine wash warm inside out with like colors using phosphate-free detergent. Machine dry. Do not iron decoration. Do not dry clean.
About the photo that inspired this tee
Flower Power is a historic photograph taken by American photographer Bernie Boston for the now-defunct Washington Star newspaper. It was nominated for the 1967 Pulitzer Prize. Taken on October 21, 1967, during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's March on the Pentagon, the iconic photo shows a Vietnam War protestor placing a carnation into the barrel of a rifle held by a soldier of the 503rd Military Police Battalion.
In a 2006 interview, Bernie remembers thinking things could have got ugly when all of a sudden, “this young man appeared with flowers and proceeded . . . [to] put them down the rifle barrel,” Boston told National Public Radio. “And I was on the wall so I could see all this, and I just started shooting.”
In 1967, the same year he captured Flower Power, Boston was commissioned to shoot a portrait of former Black Panther H. Rap Brown. Noticing the trend of a call for civil rights in the late 1960s, Boston took more images of the Civil Rights Movement, including a portrait of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. during his Poor People's Campaign, and other history-making events.
Boston also photographed every American president from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton. He taught photojournalism classes at Northern Virginia Community College and Rochester Institute of Technology. Boston died on January 22, 2008, of amyloidosis, a rare blood disease with which he had been diagnosed in 2006.
Many debates have been brought up as to the identity of the young demonstrator placing the carnations in the gun barrels on that day. According to a 2007 Washington Post article by David Montgomery, his name is George Edgerly Harris III. Harris was a young actor from New York, about 18 years old. Harris died in the early 1980s during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.
Source
https://www.vintag.es/2017/09/be-flower-in-gun-story-behind-historic.html?m=1
