Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

99 100 98 c   (BLACK PANTHERS.) 3 leaflets issued by the Students for a Democratic Society. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1968-69 and undated [400/600] “Remember Chicago . . . Support Eldridge Cleaver for President! Organize to Build a NewAmerica!”Hand- bill, 11 x 8 1 / 2 inches; worn on right edge, tape repairs on verso. Issued in protest after the 1968 Democratic Convention: “Mr. Humphrey, your pigs will fail you.” Np, circa September 1968 * “What Happened to the Panther Conference?” 2-page leaflet, 11 x 8 1 / 2 inches, protesting the exclusion of SDS from the United Front Against Fascism conference organized by the Black Panthers in Oakland. [Berkeley, CA?, September 1969] * “What is Racism?” 8-page pamphlet issued by an unidentified campus branch of the SDS. 99 c   (BLACK PANTHERS.) Douglas, Emory; artist. “Wherever death may surprise us, it will be welcome . . .” Black and white poster, 22 1 / 2 x 17 1 / 2 inches; folds, faint vertical printing line running the length of the print. San Francisco, circa 1968 [700/1,000] A stark and dramatic poster by Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party, with a long quote from Cuban revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara: “Wherever death may surprise us, it will be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, reach some receptive ear, that another hand stretch out to take up weapons and that other men come forward to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato of machine guns and the cries of battle and victory.” Eldridge Cleaver had his own copy by April 1968, as recalled by his wife Kathleen: “Eldridge and I framed that poster and hung it above our living-room sofa in the center of the wall. We believed Che’s words were sealed in his blood once he was killed in Bolivia and took them as a continual inspiration for our own revolutionary commitment” (Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, page 57). 100 c   (BLACK PANTHERS.) Wanted by the FBI: Interstate Flight,Assault with Intent to Commit Murder—Leroy Eldridge Cleaver. Two-sided leaflet, 16 x 10 1 / 4 inches, featuring 4 photographs of Cleaver and facsimile signature of J. Edgar Hoover, addressed on verso to a California bank; single tack hole reinforced with tape on verso, folds, minor wear. Washington, 13 December 1968 [700/1,000]