Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(BLACK PANTHERS.) DOUGLASS, EMORY. George Jackson Lives. Color lithographic print, 17x11 inches, incorporating photographic elements. Oakland: Black Panther Party Headquarters, [1971]
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George Lester Jackson (1941-1971) was an African American convict who became a left-wing activist, Marxist author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang. Jackson achieved fame as one of the Soledad Brothers and was later shot to death by prison guards in San Quentin Prison during an escape attempt.