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CARL HAMPTON.
Carl Lives!
Black and white poster. 17
3
⁄
8
x 23 inches, linen-
backed; faint creases where once folded.
Houston, Texas July 1970
[1,500/2,500]
An uncommon poster of Carl Hampton. Hampton was killed by the Houston Police Department’s
Central Intelligence Division. At 21, he had established himself as a leader, working tirelessly to
establish The People’s Party II, a black revolutionary group modeled after the Black Panther Party.
His outspoken statements drew the attention of both local law enforcement as well as FBI interest.
While walking home on a hot summer afternoon in 1970, Hampton saw two local policemen harass-
ing a young man who was selling the Panther Newspaper. Hampton intervened, which soon led to a
ten-day standoff with the police that ended with snipers shooting him from a rooftop.
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COMMITTEE TO DEFEND THE PANTHER 21.
The Street Wall Journal,
Volume 1, numbers 1-3.
Three lithographed posters, 17 x 22 inches, printed in black,
blue and red on white and pale blue stock.
New York, circa 1970
[2,500/3,500]
A complete set (all published) of these “wall newspaper” broadsides, produced by the Committee to
Defend the Panther 21. The title (also used by the unaffiliated S.D.S. journal) referenced the paper’s
ideological opposite, the Wall Street Journal. The Committee was formed early in 1970 by
Communist Party members and sympathizers. Sold as fundraisers to aid in the defense of the Panther
21, accused of a “conspiracy to murder New York City policemen and to dynamite a variety of sites,
ranging from Abercrombie and Fitch to the Botanical Gardens.” These broadsides were sold on the
campus of Columbia University during the spring of 1970.
RARE
,
NO COPIES ARE LOCATED BY
OCLC
,
THOUGH A SINGLE COPY OF VOL
. 1,
NO
. 1
IS LOCATED AT THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT
MUSEUM IN THE UK
.
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