118 300
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ELDRIDGE CLEAVER.
Support
Eldridge Cleaver for President at the
Peace and Freedom Presidential Nomi-
nating Convention.
Black and white screen-
print poster, 23 x 17
1
⁄
2
inches, with the
Black Panther logo and a dove in diagonal
opposing corners; some flaking to the sur-
face from what appears to have been some
early dampness. Printed on heavy stock.
San Francisco, 1968
[3,000/4,000]
A STARK AND STRIKING POSTER
,
QUITE
POSSIBLY UNIQUE
.
This was gotten up for the
1968 presidential campaign, the most chaotic
in modern history.
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NEWTON, HUEY.
Free Huey!
The Black Panther Ministry of
Information Bulletin No 1.
Flyer, sin-
gle page, printed on both sides.
Oakland, circa January, 1968
[300/400]
Recapping the sequence of events that brought
Huey Newton to this point. “Unable to lynch
Huey as per usual by shooting him in the
streets, the pigs are now trying to lynch him in
the gas chamber through their ‘legal’ system.”
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204
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[NEWTON, HUEY.]
Defense Bulletin.
3 sheets of mimeographed paper, yel-
low, blue and orange; stapled, printed on rectos only. Signed in type on the second page
“L.A. Committee for Defense of the Bill of Rights.” August 22, 1968
[1,000/1,500]
A Panther-generated “Defense Bulletin, press release” in which a number of cases of police brutality
and recklessness are cited. These are instances of the killing of unarmed black men, as well as outrages
on Mexican Americans, students sitting in, protesting lack of democracy on the campus, and a young
black man and a young white man stopped and detained for no reason whatsoever. Quickly gotten up
news sheets like this were put together in between issues of the Panther Paper to keep people in the
community aware of what was going on.
205
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LONNIE MCLUCAS.
People’s Rally Tues. Aug. 25, 1970 in Support of
Lonnie McLucas.
Black and white poster, 17 x 11 inches, [with a related flyer] * Up To
Now. In Lonnie’s Trial; single page, printed on both sides.
Connecticut, circa 1970
[600/900]
Lonnie McLucas was the first of the nine Black Panthers in New Haven, to be tried in connection
with the murder of Alex Rackley. The state charged him with murder, conspiracy, etc. Rackley was
allegedly a police informer. This flyer explains why McLucas could not possibly get a fair trial in
Connecticut because of the jury selection.
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HUEY NEWTON, BOBBY SEALE ET AL.
Power to the People.
Red felt
banner with stencil of the Panther logo in black and “Power to the People” in green, 30 x
12 inches at its widest point.
[Oakland], circa 1969-1970
[700/1,000]
A rare survival, this banner was probably stored away all these years, in its original cellophane wrapper.