San Francisco: International Committee to Release Eldridge Cleaver, [1968]. An information sheet and petition demanding the release of Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver following a shootout between the Panther and the Oakland police, in which Cleaver was wounded and Panther Bobby Hutton was killed. The recto includes information on Cleaver’s legal..... More
New York: Committee to Defend the Panthers, [1970]. A two-sided newsprint poster issued by the Committee to Defend the Panthers focusing on Black Panther Lonnie McLucas who was one of the New Haven 9. McLucas was one of three Black Panthers convicted of murdering Alex Rackley, a Panther accused of..... More
Philadelphia: Black Panther Party, [1970]. A two-sided flyer distributed by the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party following the death of Harold Brown, a young Black man, killed by two Philadelphia police officers. The recto juxtaposes a statement by the notorious Philadelphia police commissioner, Frank Rizzo, exonerating the two..... More
New York: Committee to Defend the Panthers, [1969]. Issues 7 (Oct. 19-22) and 8 (Oct. 26-29) of the weekly newsletter published by the Committee to Defend the Panthers, which provided supporters with up-to-date news related to the trial of 21 Black Panthers arrested on conspiracy to set off bombs and..... More
New York: Committee to Defend the Panthers, [1969]. A single issue of the weekly newsletter published by the Committee to Defend the Panthers, which provided supporters with up-to-date news related to the trial of 21 Black Panthers arrested on conspiracy to set off bombs and assassinate police officers in NYC..... More
Oakland: Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther Party, 2000. A single issue of the organ of the Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther Party, an organization founded to further the BPP's original ten-point program. This issue includes updates on the campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, on David Hilliard's Oakland City..... More
New York: The Liberated Guardian, 1971. A significant issue of this underground newspaper, which was selected by the Weather Underground for the distribution of its lengthy communique, New Morning - Changing Weather. Composed at the end of 1970, the communique was signed by Bernardine Dohrn on behalf of the Weather..... More
Glendale, California: [1969]. McBirnie, the pastor and radio personality, investigates “The Black Conspiracy,” the Communistic or anarchistic arm of the civil rights movement most responsible for the violence, racial tension, and destruction. This includes the “savage, frenzied extremism” of the Black Panther Party, the Black United Front, SNCC, the Black..... More
New York: R.A.T. Publication, Inc., 1969. A single issue of the notorious underground newspaper first published in 1968 and running until 1972. Notable content includes a full-page International Werewolf Conspiracy graphic, a long article on The Children’s Workshop, an LNS article on the arrest of five NYC Black Panthers, a...... More
Tulsa: Christian Crusade Publications, 1970. First edition. One of a number of publications distributed by the Far Right intent on discrediting the Panthers by painting them as Communist subversives. Includes the Panthers' origins and demands, their red and criminal tendencies, their educational objectives to "indoctrinate the minds of Black people,"..... More