Peace and Freedom Party. All The Power To The People. For President Eldridge Cleaver. [caption title]

Los Angeles: Peace and Freedom, [1968]. [4] pp. 17½ x 11½ inches. Newsprint paper stock; illustrations and half tone portraits. A near fine example. Tabloid campaign newspaper supporting Eldridge Cleaver’s 1968 presidential candidacy under the Peace and Freedom Party banner. A striking artifact of Black Panther Party political engagement, the newspaper outlines Cleaver’s platform, critiques the American political system, and calls for a coalition between Black radicals and white leftists. Cleaver writes: ""As you know, the Black Panther Party is organizing Black people across this country so that we can put an end to police brutality and murder, gross unemployment, indecent housing, inadequate medical care. The power of Black people—the power to determine our own destiny—can only be won when the colonial apparatus in the white mother country is destroyed and replaced by a truly human system. We also recognize the Demo/Republican Party as our overt enemy: we aim to pull Black people out of that oppressive framework and, working with white radicals, to break this hold this one-party system has over the American people."" The paper also features Peggy Terry, the party’s vice-presidential candidate, an endorsement for Paul Jacobs for U.S. Senate, and presents a scathing critique of establishment politics, including references to George Wallace’s segregationist campaign and broader systemic failures. Published at the height of the civil rights and Black Power movements, Cleaver sought to to unite a left-wing political base with urgent and radical rhetoric, reflecting the upheaval of 1968.…