Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 455
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BLACK PANTHERS.) Poetry is Revolution / Guerrilla Free Newspaper of the Streets. Volume 2, issue #1. Poster, 21 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches; minimal wear. New York, 1968

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A large-format broadside newspaper featuring the poem "Poetry is Revolution" by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), an appeal to support the defense funds of Jones, Huey Newton, and H. Rap Brown, and a large-type appeal: "Brothers! The judges represent a crumbling structure. Arise! Free yourselves! Arm yourselves! Work to liberate the creative spirit in all men."