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

109 c   (BLACK PANTHERS.) “I am a Revolutionary.” Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman, Ill. Chapter, Black Panther Party. Poster, 18 x 24 inches, in red and black; minor wear along top edge. Chicago, IL: Black Panther Party Ministry of Information, circa 1970. [1,200/1,800] Probably issued not long after Hampton’s Decem- ber 1969 shooting by the Chicago police. None in OCLC, and we are aware of only one other at auction, at Swann, 1 March 2012. 110 c   (BLACK PANTHERS.) Time is Running Out for the Man, Are You Ready For It, All Power to the People. Photocopied broadside, 14 x 8 1 / 2 inches; slightly uneven toning. [Berkeley, CA?], 1968 [250/350] Issued shortly before Huey Newton’s September 1968 manslaughter conviction, it urges resistance in free verse: “The charade is drawing to a close . . . a verdict of guilty would be nothing less than a decla- ration of war.” Features a drawing of the “Jack of Spades” brandishing a Molotov cocktail, signed by artist Leston Pick(?). No copies traced in OCLC. 109 110