Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BLACK PANTHERS.) Group of 11 Black Panther newspapers. May 4, June 28, and July 12, 1969; January 17, 31, February 21, March 7, 15, 21, 1970; and February 5, 19, 1972. Each issue is complete, in good condition, creases where folded as issued, usual age-toning. San Francisco, 1969-1972

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Headlines include: "Caution: Surviving is Criminal," "The fascists have already decided in advance to murder Chairman Bobby Seale in the electric chair," and "Free the Latino Seven." The 25-cent weekly publications are heightened with dramatic pictorial photomontages and bold graphic works by Emory Douglas, the party's Minister of Culture. with--A petition calling for the organization of a formal commission to investigate the "political assassination" of Black Panther Deputy Chairman, Fred Hampton, who was allegedly shot dead by Chicago police while sleeping in his apartment. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Resistance Press, [1969.]