Swann Galleries - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, Sale 2342, March 27, 2014 - page 147

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(CRIME—PENAL SYSTEM.) ERNEST GRAHAM—EUGENE ALLEN.
“Break de Chains” Prisoners Of War.
Photographic poster of two prisoners on cell-
blocks, 23 x 17 inches.
California, 1979
[600/900]
Ernerst Graham and Eugene Allen were both sentenced to death for purportedly murdering a
prison guard. Both of their sentences were overturned when it was discovered that black jurors
had been systematically culled from the jury pool.
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(CRIME—PENAL SYSTEM.) WESLEY ROBERT WELLS.
45 years of Hell.
WHY?
Poster, 14 x 17 inches, printed in sepia brown, with an image of Wells from a
painting by Jess Hawkins.
San Francisco, 1973
[350/500]
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(CRIME—PENAL SYSTEM.) ATTICA.
Support the Attica Brothers *
ATTICA. Anniversary of the Attica Rebellion.
two posters, 17 x 22 and 17
1
2
23, the
second a screen print.
Buffalo, 1971: San Francisco, 1978
[600/800]
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