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THE FIRST BLACK PANTHER POSTER
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(BLACK PANTHERS.)
Move On Over or We Will Move On Over You.
Black Panthers poster, 17 x 11 inches, featuring a stalking black panther between the two
sections of text; some toning to the right side of the poster, with a short, closed tear, about
five inches down from the top.
Np, circa 1966
[8,000/12,000]
T
HE VERY FIRST
P
ANTHER POSTER
,
CREATED IN
L
OWNDES
C
OUNTY
, A
LABAMA IN
1965,
when Stokely Carmichael and others from SNCC were there to organize and register local farmers
and others for voting. The Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO), also known as the
Black Panther Party, was founded in 1965 under the direction of Stokely Carmichael and the
Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee, or SNNC as it became known. Lowndes, like many
areas of the deep South was 80% black, but had virtually no voice in electing representative govern-
ment because the 20% whites that prevented voter registration by means of absurd testing, like
guessing the number of beans in a jug etc. SNCC/LCFO came up with the motto “Move On Over
or We Will Move On Over You.” An example of the poster can be seen on the cover of the book
“Bloody Lowndes” (Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, 2010) where it can be
seen, worn on the back of a Lowndes County farmer as he walks a local road. As far as we know, no
other copy of this poster has ever been in commerce.
BLACK PANTHERS
LOTS 151-186