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(BLACK PANTHERS.) GRAHAM, EARNEST; and EUGENE ALLEN.
Break de
Chains.
Black and white poster 23
1
/
4
x 17
1
/
4
inches.
San Francisco, 1976
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Two prisoners who were on death row, later exonerated. “The prison guards assured us that if they
were not successful in sending us to the gas chamber through court procedures, they would have to go
back to their old traditional way of eliminating blacks, but we don’t feel much pain, because we know
the people are on the march.”
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(BLACK PANTHERS—SPORT.)
Group of 3 Olympics “72” posters.
Two
posters, printed in black red and green, one picturing a black man with first raised; the
other a woman with fist raised, evocative of Tommie Smith and John Carlos in the 1968
Games. A third poster in black and white advertising a variety of posters from the same
company, all with African American themes.
New York: Jymie (sic) Productions, 1970
[500/750]
Two stark posters bringing to mind John Carlos and Tommie Smith, the two sprinters from team
America who in 1968 refused to accept their medals and instead raised their fists in the classic Black
Power salute. It is probable that these posters were produced in anticipation of the 1972 games, two
years before they were played. The ‘72 games were not without their own drama as the U.S. basket-
ball team tangled with the Soviets.
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