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(BLACK PANTHERS.) SEALE, BOBBY.
ON STRIKE! Here and Now for
Bobby Seale.
Portrait poster of Bobby Seale, 22 x 17 inches, printed entirely in brown.
[New Haven, CT: Yale University Strike, 1970]
[600/900]
A scarce poster gotten up by students at Yale in 1970 to protest the trial of Bobby Seale and others,
which was taking place in New Haven. The Panthers were being tried for the murder of Alex
Rackley, suspected of being a traitor to the Panther cause. A very important trial which became a rally-
ing point for the American Left. But it also divided both students and faculty into conservatives and
progressive camps. The courthouse was just across from the Yale campus, making it even easier for the
thousands who took part. In the end, the protest and student strike forced Yale to compromise to avoid
further negative coverage in the press and to get scheduled classes back to normal.
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(BLACK PANTHERS.) PRISON REFORM.
Prison Conference. The
Struggle Inside.
Red and black poster, 30 x 20 inches; some light wear and wrinkling
along the edges.
Np [West Coast,] circa 1970’s
[350/500]
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(BLACK PANTHERS.)
Group of 11 Black Panther newspapers.
May 4,
June 28, and July 12, 1969; January 17, 31, February 21, March 7, 15, 21, 1970; and
February 5, 19, 1972. Each issue is complete, in good condition, creases where folded as
issued, usual age-toning.
San Francisco, 1969-1972
[800/1,200]
Headlines include: “Caution: Surviving is Criminal,” “The fascists have already decided in advance
to murder Chairman Bobby Seale in the electric chair,” and “Free the Latino Seven.” The 25-cent
weekly publications are heightened with dramatic pictorial photomontages and bold graphic works by
Emory Douglas, the party’s Minister of Culture.
WITH
—
A petition calling for the organization of a
formal commission to investigate the “political assassination” of Black Panther Deputy Chairman,
Fred Hampton, who was allegedly shot dead by Chicago police while sleeping in his apartment.
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Resistance Press, [1969.]
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