May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AFRICA.) Wanted! F.B.I. & C.I.A. for Murdering & Destroying African Leaders. Smash F.B.I. & C.I.A.! Black and white offset poster, 15 1/4 x 11 inches; minor wear including light horizontal folds and a strip of tape in upper margin. Washington, DC: All African Peoples' Revolutionary Party, circa 1970
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Illustrated with photographs of Martin Luther King and Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), and a collage of smaller photographs including Malcolm X and Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) (top row, center). The poster was issued by Nkrumah's leftist All-African People's Revolutionary Party. Stokely Carmichael may have been involved; he had left the Black Panther Party, moved to Guinea in 1969, assumed the name Kwame Ture, and became very active in the AAPRP. It is signed "Theo" in the print. We are aware of no other copies of this anti-imperialist poster at auction or in institutions.