May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BLACK PANTHERS.) Fred Hampton, 1948-1969: We, the People, Will Carry Our Freedom Struggle Thru to the End. Poster, 22 1/4 x 16 3/4 inches, in red, yellow, and black; minor wear including two light creases in lower right corner. Np, circa 1970

Additional Details

This poster juxtaposes the FBI killing of Chicago Panther leader Fred Hampton with the My Lai massacre in the Vietnam War. No artist or printer is named. None traced at auction, and none in OCLC, but one is held by the National Portrait Gallery.