[BLACK PANTHER PARTY]. DOUGLAS, Emory (b. 1943), artist. We are the Revolutionaries. [Oakland, CA?], ca 1970.

14 x 20 in. poster, in pink ink on heavy newsprint, featuring halftone images of four men involved in the Marin County Courthouse Rebellion over Emory Douglas artwork depicting a Black Panther raising a rifle with one arm. Upper right with printed quotation from Che Guevara, in part: "Wherever death may surprise us, it will be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, reach some receptive ear, that another hand stretch out to take up weapons and that other men come forward..."

The Marin County Courthouse Rebellion of 1970, born from escalating racial tensions within California's criminal justice system, resulted in the attempted kidnapping of a judge and a violent shootout. Ruchell Magee, a Black Panther involved in the abduction, was the group's sole survivor of the shootout and was sentenced in 1975 to life in prison for his actions.

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Minor/light creasing, very light toning to edges.

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[BLACK PANTHER PARTY]. DOUGLAS, Emory (b. 1943), artist. We are the Revolutionaries. [Oakland, CA?], ca 1970.

American Historical Ephemera and Photography

[BLACK PANTHER PARTY]. DOUGLAS, Emory (b. 1943), artist. We are the Revolutionaries. [Oakland, CA?], ca 1970.

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