215
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(BLACK PANTHERS.) BOBBY SEALE, HUEY NEWTON, ET AL.
Organizing Self-Defense Groups. “An unarmed People are Slaves or are Subject
to Slavery at any given Moment.”
Illustrated twelve-page booklet, stapled; some dis-
coloration and very light wear, rear cover detached.
[San Francisco, circa 1970]
[1,500/2,500]
The rare panther “how to” booklet that explained how to make a bomb This 10 page booklet
opens with a summary of what had been happening in the black neighborhoods and the arrests
and trials that were under way. At this time Bobby Seale was facing murder charges, Eldridge
Cleaver had fled the country, and the Panther’s Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas, the artist
behind all of the excellent Panther posters was facing five years to life. Following are six illus-
trated pages of how to take apart and put back together an M14, M16, shotgun, bolt action
rifle, pistol and revolver and detailed instructions on how to assemble a “Molotov cocktail.”
The local and federal officials tried to find and destroy as many copies of this publication as
could be found. Possession of a copy was considered “seditious,” and people were prosecuted for
owning this and other “seditious literature.” Needless to say, few of these flyers have survived.
This is the first example we have had since these sales began in 1996.
216
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(BLACK RADICAL MOVEMENTS.) BASAUTO, LUMUMBA. ARO
Truth
Letter Number 1, June 1, 1970
Large broadside, 21
1
⁄
2
x 13
1
⁄
3
inches, printed in double
column; some wrinkling and creases where folded; dry-mounted to a piece of heavy card-
stock
New York, 1970
[400/600]
215
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