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

107 c   (BLACK PANTHERS.) Press photo of the arrest of a Black Panther. Photo- graph, 8 x 10 inches; minimal wear, inked United Press International stamp and manu- script captions on verso. Los Angeles, CA, 8 December 1969 [300/400] An image from the dawn SWAT raid on the Pan- thers’ Los Angeles headquarters which turned into a extended gunfight and siege. The caption reads in part “A plainclothes policeman aims a gun at a Negro that left the Black Panther headquarters during a siege. . . .Three police officers were shot during the four-hour siege.” 108 107 108 c   (BLACK PANTHERS.) “If I Should Return, I Shall KissYou. If I Should Fall on the Way, I Shall Ask You to Do as I Have in the Name of Revolution.” Poster, 23 x 29 inches, in red and black, with Black Panther logo in lower margin; minor edge wear, light creases, small dampstain in upper margin, two partial separations along vertical folds. New Haven, CT: John Huggins Free Breakfast Program, 1969 [1,000/1,500] John Huggins (1945-1969) was a Black Panther leader who was killed in Los Angeles by members of a rival black nationalist group, the US Organization, in a feud apparently instigated by the FBI.The Panthers named their new children’s breakfast program in his honor. His wife Ericka is shown here with their daughter Mai. Only one other example of this poster has been traced at auction, at Swann on 3 May 2010, lot 133.