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CLEAVER, ELDRIDGE.
The FBI, OPD, and Eldridge Cleaver.
Illustrated
throughout. Two pages of frontispiece portraits, one of Martin Luther King Jr. with
Malcolm X, the other of Cleaver when he was running for president. 24 pages, plus two
additional full page portraits of Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter and Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt
at the end. Small 8vo, original pictorial red, white and blue wrappers; vertical crease where
folded for mailing.
San Francisco: Friends of Eldridge Cleaver, 1976
[600/800]
A RARE BOOKLET GOTTEN UP TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE DEFENSE OF ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
,
but more importantly presenting a short, but detailed history of the FBI’s “Cointelpro” activities within
the Black Panther party. The killing of a number of Panthers by police and Federal agents is also
recounted. This illustrations are striking, especially the one on the rear cover, showing Eldridge and Kathy
Cleaver with their infant daughter. This booklet was gotten up after Cleaver returned from five years of
self-exile in Cuba. This booklet, written by “Friends of Eldridge Cleaver,” outlines all of the arcane
machinations of the FBI and Cointelpro. “Many forces have conspired to cover up this era, to sweep it
under the rug. . . Research into these dark pages of our history is vitally needed” (from the introduction).
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(BLACK RADICALS.) OSPAAAL.
Black Power / Retalition to Crime:
Revolutionary Violence.
Poster by Alfredo Rosgard, 20
7
⁄
8
x 13 inches; minor loss in
upper left corner, minor offsetting in image.
[Cuba], 1968
[400/600]
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(BLACK POWER.) SMITH, TOMMIE & JOHN CARLOS.
Olympiada en
Mexico. Olympics in Mexico.
Lobby card, showing African American Athletes giving
black power salute. 12
1
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2
x 16
1
/
2
inches, small pinholes.
Mexico City, 1968
[300/400]
The 1968 Olympics Black Power salute was an act of protest by the African-American athletes Tommie
Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City. As they
turned to face their flags and hear the Star-Spangled Banner, they each raised a black-gloved fist and kept
them raised until the anthem had finished. Smith, Carlos and Australian silver medalist Peter Norman
all wore human rights badges on their jackets. In his autobiography, Silent Gesture, Tommie Smith stated
that the gesture was not a “Black Power” salute, but a “human rights salute”. The event is regarded as
one of the most overtly political statements in the history of the modern Olympic Games.
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