Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 2,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BLACK PANTHERS.) Pair of Angela Davis centerfold portraits. Posters on newsprint as described. San Francisco, 1970-71

Additional Details

"Sister: You Are Welcome Here." Poster, 22 3/4 x 15 inches, red and black on newsprint; horizontal fold as issued, minimal wear. Issued as the centerfold illustration of the Fall 1970 issue of Leviathan, with pages 18 and 15 on verso; offered here as part of the complete 32-page issue of this alternative newspaper. This was one of the first pro-Angela Davis posters, issued in reaction to the FBI wanted posters and a September Life Magazine article; its message evokes the welcome extended to fugitives on the Underground Railroad. See Beegan & Gustafson, Angela Davis, pages 30 and 59. San Francisco, CA, Fall 1970.

"Freedom for Angela Davis." Poster, 22 1/2 x 17 inches, orange and black on newsprint; folds as issued, minimal wear. Issued as the centerfold illustration for an International Women's Day issue of People's World; pages "F" and "C" appear on verso, including a long article on the Davis case. [San Francisco, CA]: International Union of Students, 6 March 1971.