[BLACK PANTHER PARTY]. "Free Huey" flag that was flown at a protest demonstration to free Huey Newton near the Alameda County Courthouse. Oakland, CA, 1968.
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
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Live / Cincinnati
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[BLACK PANTHER PARTY]. "Free Huey" flag that was flown at a protest demonstration to free Huey Newton near the Alameda County Courthouse. Oakland, CA, 1968.
31 3/4 x 47 3/4 in. hand-painted light blue cotton flag (some creasing, minor soiling, otherwise very fine condition). Provenance: Bolerium Books, The Black Panther Party and related material from the collection of Samuel L. Brooks, Oakland, CA, May 2022, item #22. Samuel L. Brooks is a collector of Bay Area Black community history and Black Panther Party.
This was one of several flags that Samuel Brooks saved, which had been discarded after a rally near the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland during Huey Newton's 1968 trial for murder. Photographs taken at the 1968 demonstrations show flags such as this example being waived.
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