May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BLACK PANTHERS.) The Sky's the Limit if You Kill Huey Newton. Poster, 28 1/4 x 19 inches; minor dampstaining, staple holes in margins, minor wear, tape remnants on verso. Oakland, CA: Black Panther Party, circa September 1968

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Three Panthers in uniform are shown with "Free Huey" flags on the steps of the Alameda County Court House. Newton's trial extended from June to September 1968. A copy of the poster is described as hanging on San Francisco's Fillmore Street during this period in Orrick, "Shut it Down!: A College in Crisis," page 92. This poster was produced by Graphic Arts of Marin County, using a 30 July 1968 photograph by Pirkle Jones. None are traced in OCLC or at auction, though one copy is found among the photographer's papers at the University of California at Santa Cruz.