"Your Future Rests... In Your Hands"

A single-issue comic from 1964, published by the NAACP, "Your Future Rests... In Your Hands" is a landmark piece of advocacy-driven sequential art. Most closely associated with artist Larry Lieber, this one-shot was designed to encourage African American youth to pursue higher education, using the comic book medium to deliver a powerful message about opportunity and self-determination. Its existence highlights a unique intersection of civil rights activism and popular culture during the 1960s.