Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(BLACK PANTHERS.) [H. "RAP" BROWN.] Wanted by the FBI. Hubert Geroid Brown. Lithographic poster, 16 x 10 1/2 inches; some very light wear at the creases where folded; small stamp "O.H.H. May 8, 1970. Typed address of the Pinkerton Detective Agency on the reverse. Washington, 1970

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Issued by the FBI following Brown's flight before his trial in early 1970. Brown had been national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee after Stokely Carmichael stepped down. Brown was not caught until 1972.