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.