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(BLACK PANTHERS.)
Black Unity. Volume I, No.1.
Newspaper, 8 pages,
large folio. Front cover by Emory Douglass, centerfold poster with “The Functional
Definition of Politics by Huey Newton” with a portrait of Newton.
Camp Pendleton, August, 1970
[1,000/1,500]
THE RARE FIRST ISSUE OF THIS RADICAL NEWSPAPER
,
PRODUCED BY THE PANTHERS ON
THE ARMY BASE AT CAMP PENDLETON
.
NO COPIES ARE LOCATED IN OCLC
.
The masthead
declares: “This is your personal property and cannot legally be taken from you.” The end of
the 1960’s and early 1970’s saw the beginnings of real dissent among black soldiers who had
come to see the war inViet Nam as a “White Man’sWar.” Slogans such as “NoVietnamese
ever called me Nigger,” were common among black recruits. In the centerfold of this newspaper
Huey Newton expounds on war and politics: “Politics is war without bloodshed.War is politics
with bloodshed.” The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of blacks ever to serve in an
American war. During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, who formed 11
percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers inVietnam and 20%
of all casualties. Prints “Letters from the Brig,” and other articles directly bearing on black in
the Armed Services. Danky (1059) locates only 1 copy of this publication at Wisconsin Hist.
Society together with vol. 1, number 2, the only 2 issues published.
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(BLACK PANTHERS—COMMITTEE ON INTERNAL SECURITY
REPORT.)
Gun Barrel Politics.The Black Panther Party, 1966-1971.
Illustrated. ix,
[ii], [1]-145, vii pages. 8vo, original printed white wrappers, stapled. An excellent copy.
Washington, 1971
[400/600]
In October of 1969, the House Committee on Internal Security began an investigation of the
Black Panther Party.The study was conducted under the direction of Richard Howard Ichord
Jr. (1926-1992), a fervent anti-Communist, who had the distinction of being the last
chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, the “brainchild” of Wisconsin
Senator Joe McCarthy. The investigation of the Panthers was conducted with considerably
more zeal than the Communist witch-hunts of the 1950’s.The F.B.I and local California
police in general waged a deadly war against the Panthers, all documented here.The Report
is certainly one-sided, but it is fascinating to see how the Government infiltrated and persecuted
the party.The Report describes Malcolm X as “The Patron Saint” of the movement. Scarce.
While many copies appear in institutional holdings, this is the first copy we have seen.
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(BLACK PANTHERS.) DAVIS,
ANGELA.
Angela Davis.
Photographic collage
by Barry Shapiro, 22 x 16-1/2 inches.
Del Mar, California, 1971
[800/1,200]
A very unusual poster showing Angela Davis behind
bars, within a clenched fist.
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(BLACK PANTHERS.) DAVIS,
ANGELA.
Angela Davis
Silk screen portrait,
67-1/2x42-1/2 inches, black on orange silk.
Lansing, MI:Toad Hall, circa 1971
[800/1,200]
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