(BLACK PANTHERS) We are the Revolutionaries

Sale 2204 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 1,020

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700

(BLACK PANTHERS.) We are the Revolutionaries. Poster, 20x14 inches by Emory, printed in pink monochrome; some slight wrinkling. [San Francisco, 1970]

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Shortly after August 7, 1970, photos of what has become known as the "Courthouse Slave Rebellion" hit the front pages of the nation's dailies, showing four armed Black men emerging from the Marin County Courthouse with hostages that included a judge, prosecutor and three jurors -- provoking panic in some and pride in others. Ruchell Magee had come to testify for fellow prisoner, James McClain, against the charge of assaulting a guard in the wake of the murder of Fred Billingsley by San Quentin guards. Billingsley was beaten and tear gassed to death in his cell. Magee was on the witness stand when Jonathan Jackson (17), younger sibling of Soledad Brother George Lester Jackson, burst into the courtroom "courage in one hand, assault rifle in the other," and took charge.