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Lot 66
[BLACK PANTHER PARTY]. End the War / Free Bobby & all political prisoners. [Berkeley: People's Legal Defense Committee, ca 1968].
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[BLACK PANTHER PARTY]. End the War / Free Bobby & all political prisoners. [Berkeley: People's Legal Defense Committee, ca 1968].

18 1/4 x 24 3/4 in. silkscreen poster (very fine condition, minimal toning to margins). Possibly produced for a 1968 exhibition at the Phoenix Gallery in Berkeley.

Anonymously-produced poster featuring a portrait of Bobby Seale, who had been arrested as one of the original "Chicago Eight" charged with conspiracy and inciting a riot in the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He was never convicted but sentenced to four years for 16 counts of contempt. During this prison sentence he was further prosecuted in the New Haven Black Panther trials.
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