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(BLACK PANTHERS.)
Black Panther Assassinated. Fred Hampton 1948-
1969.
Poster, printed in green, 22
1
⁄
4
x 17
1
⁄
4
inches; one inch closed tear to the blank left
margin, not affecting the image; a few small chips and edge-wear, again, not affecting the
image or text.
[Philadelphia: Mark Morris Designs, 1970]
[400/600]
This poster incorporates a space for a petition, and was meant to be hung up in a public place,
so passersby could sign their names to it.
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191
192
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(BLACK PANTHERS—SNCC.)
BROWN, RAP.
Let Rap Rap.
Black and
white poster, 21 x 16
1
⁄
4
inches, small rem-
nant of cello-tape at blank upper margin,
otherwise quite clean.
Los Angeles: SNCC, 1968
[1,500/2,500]
An uncommon poster of H. Rap Brown,
Chairman of the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee. Jamil Abdullah Al-
Amin (1943- also known as Hubert Gerold
Brown, also known as H. Rap Brown, was
chairman of
the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and
during a short-lived (six months) alliance
between SNCC and the Black Panther Party,
he served as their Minister of Justice. He is per-
haps most famous for his proclamation during
that period that “violence is as American as
cherry pie”, as well as once saying that “If
America don’t come around, we’re gonna burn
it down.” The latter was the one that seriously
caught the attention of J. Edgar Hoover. His
autobiography is titled Die Nigger Die! And
he is currently serving a life sentence for murder
following the 2000 shooting of two Fulton
County Sheriff’s deputies—both of whom were
African-Americans; another deputy, Ricky
Kinchen, died in the shooting.
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