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[DAVIS, ANGELA.]
James Baldwin’s Statement to Angela.
Silkscreen poster,
22
1
⁄
2
x 29 inches by Vinton Kirk.
Buffalo: Buffalo Committee to Free Angela Davis, [1971]
[4,000/6,000]
A striking poster printed by October Graphics designer Vinton Kirk, using the concluding lines of
James Baldwin’s famous “An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis,” inside of her Afro: “The
Enormous revolution in black consciousness which has occurred in your generation, my dear sister,
means the beginning of the end of America. Some of us, white and black know how great a price has
already been paid to bring into existence a new consciousness, a new people, and unprecedented
nation. . . . For if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.”
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