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
Ann Arbor: Up Against the Wall Street Journal, 1970. Three issues of this large format underground newspaper published in Ann Arbor. Included are [Vol. 1], number 3 (February 11, 1970); [Vol. 1], number 7 (April 8, 1970); and [Vol. 1], number 9 (October 26, 1970). Content focuses on standard New..... 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
Ann Arbor: Ministry of Information, White Panther Party, 1970-71. Two of only three published issues of the White Panther’s newspaper, which was modeled after The Black Panther. The White Panther Party was founded in Nov. 1968 by Pun Plamondon, Leni Sinclair, and John Sinclair as a response to Huey P...... 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
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