Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BLACK PANTHERS.) Pair of Angela Davis handbills for speaking appearances after her academic reinstatement. Each 11 x 8 1/2 inches; minimal wear, light fold in the second handbill. Vp, 24 October [1969]

Additional Details

Angela Davis had been fired from her position as a philosophy professor at UCLA because of her Communist Party membership. On 20 October 1969, she was reinstated. 4 days later she was booked for these two lecture appearances in northern California, one at noon and the other at 8 p.m.
"Angela Davis . . . Herbert Marcuse . . . Lower Sproul." Advertising a joint lecture by two famous leftist professors of philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley; printed in red and black. [Berkeley, CA] "Angela Davis Speaks! . . . Roosevelt Jr. High School." San Jose, CA.