Black Panther Party (44 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.74.

Newspaper. 20p., tabloid format newspaper, illus., tri-fold for mailing, slightly edgeworn, otherwise very good. Still wrapped in mailer with Oakland return address. Single issue of the paper published by former Black Panthers and supporters. Front cover: "Demonstrators Nationwide Demand Justice In Wake of Supreme Court's Election Theft," and the back page, "Why Trust What the U.S. Government Says About HIV?".

Newspaper. 20p., tabloid format newspaper, illus., tri-fold for mailing, slightly edgworn, otherwise very good. Still wrapped in mailer with Berkeley return address. Single issue of the paper published by former Black Panthers and supporters.

Newspaper. 20p., tabloid format newspaper, illus., tri-fold for mailing, otherwise very good. Still wrapped in mailer with return address. Single issue of the paper published by former Black Panthers and supporters.

Newspaper. 24p., tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, some ink smudging on front page, otherwise very good.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon état. In-12 broché 18 cm sur 10. 316 pages. Couverture légèrement passée. Bon état d'occasion. in-12°.

First Edition. Tabloid (43cm); photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers; 12pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center, else a fresh, Fine example. Sharp copy of this Philadelphia underground paper, originally launched at Temple University in May, 1968. This issue features a front cover photo and rear cover article dedicated to the arrest of Rolando "Montae" Hearn Jr., a Philadelphia Panther responsible for coordinating the local Free Breakfast for Children Program. Large centerfold article on the plight of coal workers, along with write-ups on student protests, etc.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (Black Panther Party) The Black Panther Black Community News Service, Volume II Number 3, Saturday May 18, 1968. Oakland, Calif.: The Black Panther Party, May 18, 1968. FIRST EDITION. Elephant folio - 17-1/2" x 11-3/8". 28 pp. The Black Panther Black Community News Service was a weekly newspaper published by the Black Panther Party between 1967-1980. Each issue featured a range of articles and op-eds on the activities of the party, Black Power, police brutality, communism, party leadership, etc. The back of most issues featured revolutionary artwork by the graphic artist and Black Panther Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas. The masthead on the front page of this issue has the slogan "Huey Must Be Set Free" between a photographic portrait of Huey P. Newton and the silhouette of a rifle. Under the masthead are three Black Panther Party logos of the crouching black panther above an illustration of Eldridge Cleave after a photograph and the caption "Soul on Ice" above the headline Remember Malcolm X beside a portrait of Malcolm X after a drawing. Inside one will find: "Inside White America" illustrated after a photograph of a black man sitting on a bicycle watching as a parade of white supremacists wearing Celtic Cross armbands and with a sign reading "Keep America White," "Jails Are the First Black Concentration Camps," "#1 Affidavit of Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information, Black Panther Party, California State Prison, Vacaville, California," "Liberation and Political Assassination," "The Spirit of the Panther Is Stronger Than the Man's Jails," Political ads for Eldridge Cleaver for President, Kathleen Cleaver for Assemblywoman, Huey Newton for Congress and Bobby Seale for State Assemblyman. The back page features "Revolutionary Literature," a full page advertisement for Black Panther Party books, pamphlets and posters; the paper is age-tanned and folded as issued, with minor rubbing along horizontal fold of front page and minor loss at the intersecting folds of several pages with all paper loss confined to the margins. The condition of the newspaper is VERY GOOD. AN VERY EARLY ISSUE OF THIS INFLUENTIAL UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPER.

Newsprint. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Printing. A proclamation that was issued for a rally at the Lincoln Memorial, attended by about 1,000 people on Juneteenth (June 19), 1970, on the occasion of BPP's call for a " Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention". The purpose for the convention was to rewrite the US Constitution to ensure equal rights for oppressed groups, including African Americans, women, and young people. Newsprint, 1 sheet ([4] pages) with centerfold, 11 3/8" x 17 1/2", opening to 22 3/4" x 17 1/2". Horizontal fold at center, Very Good Plus, horizontal crease near top edge, small old tape mends at corners rear. Printed with titles front and rear, text interior in four columns, ending with the phrase "ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE". *** NOTE (A separate version was published that featured "On the Constitution" and "Towards a New Constitution", authored by Eldridge Cleaver and Huey P. Newton ,on the front and rear covers instead of the "Message to America" titles.).

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Douglas, Emory (illustrator). 1st Edition. (Black Panther Party) The Black Panther Black Community News Service, Volume I, Number 3, June 20, 1967. Oakland, Calif.: The Black Panther Party For Self Defense, June 20, 1967. FIRST EDITION; SIGNED BY KATHLEEN CLEAVER ABOVE THE BPP LOGO OF A CROUCHING BLACK PANTHER IN THE MASTHEAD; a Letter of Authenticity from PSA/DNA (Cert. No. AQ07604) certifying the authenticity of the signature accompanies this lot. Elephant folio - 17-1/2" x 11-3/8". 8 pp. The Black Panther Black Community News Service was a weekly newspaper published by the Black Panther Party between 1967-1980. Each issue featured a range of articles and op-eds on the activities of the Party, Black Power, police brutality, communism, party leadership, etc. The back of most issues featured revolutionary artwork by the graphic artist and Black Panther Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas. The headline on the front page of this issue reads: "Panthers Demand Independence For N. Richmond Area;" following this is "On Revolutionary Art," a poem and drawing by Emory [Douglas] which put the White Establishment on notice that Blacks were not going to accept the position in America that the White Establishment had relegated them to. Articles in this issue include: "In Defense of Self Defense," 10-Point "What We Want Now!" and 10-Point "What We Believe" by Huey P. Newton, BPP Minister of Defense. "Remember the Words of Brother Malcolm X," "Everyday Life in the Black Ghetto," "A Salute to Brother Stokely," more revolutionary artwork by Emory Douglas, several ads for local businesses and two notices of upcoming rallies that the Black Panthers were participating in., The back page features the 14-Point "Pocket Lawyer of Legal First Aid" and a full length portrait of Mohammad Ali by Emory Douglas captioned "You're the Champ. Sock it to Theme [sic]!" followed by a quote attributed to Ali: "No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder and kill and burn other people simply to help continue the domination of white slave masters over the dark people the world over. This is the day and age when such evil injustice must come to an end;" the paper is age-tanned and folded as issued, with only minimal signs of the handling and wear that is the norm for these newspapers. The condition of the newspaper is NEAR FINE. RARE; JUST THE THIRD ISSUE OF THIS INFLUENTIAL PAPER SIGNED BY KATHLEEN CLEAVER, BPP COMMUNICATIONS SECRETARY AND WIFE OF ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, BPP MINISTER OF INFORMATION. IN THIS ISSUE, THE PANTERS COME OUT SWINGING, LETTING THE WHITE ESTABLISHMENT KNOW THAT INDEED A NEW DAY HAD DAWNED IN AMERICA. Signed by Kathleen Cleaver.

Original street zine (280 x 215mm). [4pp.], mimeographed in black on thin white stock, printed on rectos and versos, with three in-text b&w photographic vignettes (including a portrait of Erika Huggins), loose sheets stab stapled in the upper left-hand corner . New York, Committee to Defend the Panthers, n.d., c. 1970. £35 A trifle creased and with some very light browning, a crisp copy. Economically priced but scarce artefact of trying times in Black history. Questions the rationale for the ongoing conspiracy to murder trial of fourteen prominent members of the New Haven Black Panthers and the famous Chicago trial of Bobby Seale.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Approx 6 by 9" stapled wraps booklet, mark-free with light wear, illustrated wraps, 12pp, photos. Scarce. no date circa 1975.

First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28cm); original glossy pictorial card wrappers; xxiv,152pp; illus.; with supplementary DVD housed in a plastic sleeve, mounted to the inner rear wrapper. Some trivial surface wear, else Fine. Richly illustrated volume by a founding member and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, issued to mark the 40th anniversary of the Party's long-running newspaper. With a preface by Hilliard, and essays by Craig L. Rice, Kumasi, Elaine Brown, Dr. Stan Oden, and Joshua Bloom.

First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (26.75cm); photo-illustrated boards; [7],8-151,[1]pp; illus. Trivial dustiness to rear cover, base of spine and upper rear board corner a bit nudged; Near Fine. An extensive collection of previously-unpublished photographs by Stephen Shames, whose involvement with the Black Panther Party began while he was a student at UC Berkeley and actively involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement. He developed close friendship with Bobby Seale allowed him unusual access to Panther activities and events. Contains a foreword by Seale, with an essay ("Recovering the Legacy of the Black Panther Party Through the Photographs of Stephen Shames") by Charles E. Jones.

Condition: Good in Wraps. First Edition. First Edition. Cover and rear depicts Geronimo, includes articles of indigenous American persecution, oppression in South Africa, and Huey Newton trial and incarceration. The Black Panther Black Community News Service was a weekly newspaper published by the Black Panther Party between 1967-1980. Each issue featured a range of articles and op-eds on the activities of the party, black power, police brutality, communism, and party leadership. The back of most issues featured revolutionary artwork by the Black Panther Minister of Culture, the graphic artist Emory Douglas. Scarce copies. Moderate creasing, folding, chipping, toning throughout, general loss to wrappers, else good. Tabloid. B/w & color; offset-printed. Clipped portion, section on page 5.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. No publisher, place or date. Perhaps circa 1970. Pinback, blue with black lettering and a safety pin style back. 1 11/16 inches in diameter. Portrait of Bobby Seale wearing a beret in the center. A pinback perhaps issued by the Black Panther Party, depicting leader Bobby Seale. NEAR FINE with light rubbing to the face. Minor tarnishing on the reverse.

Unbound. Condition: Good. no date, presumed circa 1970s, maybe early 1980s, based on provenance. Single sheet, 17 by 11 inches, folded in half to make two 8 ½ by 11 inch pages. Printed on single sides only. Black Panther logo at the upper left of the first page, with a small photo of Bobby Hutton at the upper right. A photomechanically reproduced REPRINT of the rules of the Black Panther Party, a list of ten that all party members were to abide by. Blank lines at the end where the heads of the central committee were supposed to sign. It appears this was issued by the Central Headquarters, Emeryville Branch, Oakland, California. Listed along the left side are the members of the Central Committee, including Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hilliard, George Murray, Melvin Newton, James Forman, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver and Emory Douglas. NOTE: this is a reprint of what was perhaps the original (which was offset printed, and which we had to compare at one point). The original and this came from the same collection, and based on the provenance it is possible this was reproduced by the owner in the 1970s for distribution or for reference. The former, as far as we could establish, was part of a group perhaps associated with the Black Liberation Army. GOOD condition. Minor wrinkling and creasing. General minor toning. Several tears along the fold creases, with the extremities worn. REPRINT.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); black and cream paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,302,[4]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication along the lower margin of the frontispiece: "8/4/06 - To Carl Reddy / Will you die with me? / Flores A. Forbes." Spine ends nudged, lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp); Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $26.00), with modest external wear, and a few surface abrasions; Very Good+. Memoir of a California Black Panther, recounting his days as the youngest member of the organization's central committee, his participation in a variety of operations with Huey P. Newton, his incarceration, and his self-professed journey "from rage to redemption." With a foreword by Elaine Brown.

New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21, 1970. Lithograph broadside. 22½ x 17½ inches. Numerous mild creases and light edgewear; two clear tape mends to blank verso. Overall, presentable; good. Riffing on its capitalist namesake, the radical Street Wall Journal was put out by the Committee to Defend the Panther 21 and sold to help cover the group's legal costs. The Panther 21, a group of twenty-one members of the Black Panther Party, had been charged with conspiring to assassinate New York City police officers and bomb a range of targets, from Abercrombie & Fitch to the Botanical Gardens. Among the defendants was Afeni Shakur, mother of rapper Tupac Shakur, who notably represented herself during the trial. This broadside is the first in a series distributed on the Columbia University campus during the spring of 1970.

Original mimeographed broadside, with text printed in black on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 35.5cm (8.5" x 14"). Several old folds smoothed out, a few diagonal creases to lower left corner, and some subtle toning along the lower edge; Very Good+. Broadside produced by the Spartacist League unpacking the "strange alliance" between the Black Panther Party and the Peace and Freedom Party. They express support for the Panthers, while slamming Peace and Freedom's "deliberately vague radical-liberal rhetoric and its explicit rejection of a socialist program and a working-class orientation.Unless militant forces on the left counter the present drift to the right by building a revolutionary workers' party the consequences could be disastrous. Such a party can only be built by the relentless application of class struggle principles in the face of all opportunist pressures whatever their guise. In the '68 election, we believe critical support to the ticket of the seriously defective Socialist Workers Party aids in building a party of working-class struggle." 83842.

Condition: Near Fine. Broadsheet on blue paper. 28 x 22 cm. Press Release Printed on both sides. "On Monday March 8, 1871 at approximately 2:30 - 3:00 P.M. three brothers were walking east of 125th Street when they encountered 2 fools (who are aligned with the Huey P. Newton and David Hilliard clique) selling Black Panther Papers. As one of our comrades moved closer to confiscacate the reactionary rag sheet, he was struck in the back of the head with a forty five. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF OUR DEPUTY FIELD MARSHALL ROBERT WEBB.".

4p., tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold, evenly toned, faint library rubberstamp in upper right corner of front cover, otherwise very good. Cover photo depicts a bloodied Black man being led away from a demonstration by police, with the headline "Fascism in America and recognizing it for exactly what it is." Includes the Panther call for a United Front Against Fascism.

First Edition. Original broadside, with text mimeographed in black on light blue stock, measuring 21.5cm x 27.75cm (8.5" x 11"). A few old folds smoothed out, subtle toning to lower corners; Near Fine. Youth Against War & Fascism (YAWF) was the youth arm of the Trotskyist Workers World Party, dedicated to raising awareness for the plight of political prisoners held across the U.S. Here they draw attention to the government's attempt to destroy the Black Panther Party, citing the murder of Fred Hampton, 300 members of the LAPD laying seige to Panther headquarters, 28 Panthers murdered by police, and the ongoing trial of the Panther 21. They call for a mass protest rally in Union Square, on Saturday, December 13, 1970, with the promise of prominent speakers from Black Liberation, trade union, and anti-war groups.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-217,[7]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "4/1/10 - To: Louise.Robert H. King." Crown gently nudged, else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $24.95), with some trivial wear to extremities. Memoir by King (b.1942), who in 1970 was convicted of a crime he did not commit, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. "He became a member of the Black Panther Party while in Angola State Penitentiary, successfully organizing prisoners to improve conditions. In return, prison authorities beat him, starved him, and gave him life without parole after framing him for a second crime. He was thrown into solitary confinement, where he remained in a six by nine foot cell for 29 years as one of the Angola 3. In 2001, the state grudgingly acknowledged his innocence and set him free" (from the front flap).

Condition: Very Good. Broadside. 22 x 28 cm. Minor soiling and wear and a small corner crease. Bust Length image of Huey Newton and FREE HUEY across the middle portion of this broadside. March 23rd fell on Monday in both 1969 and 1970.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. No place: 1970. Approximately 1 ¾ inches in diameter. Stickpin style back. Emory Douglas art featured on the front. The first Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention was a conference organized by the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia, in September of 1970. Members of various organizations representing the Black Power movement, the Chicano movement, American Indian movement, women's and gay liberation attended, gathering in various workshops that created declarations to be incorporated into a new constitution. The success of this convention led to the planning of a second convention, in Washington, DC in November of the same year. Here the drafted constitution was to be ratified, and previous efforts advanced. However, disputes over venues, interference from police, and disorganization within the Black Panther Party caused this to be a scattered, scaled down affair, that did little to accomplish their planned goals. VERY GOOD condition. Minor toning and rubbing to the face. Heavy rusting to the reverse.

Condition: Near fine. A handbill for a rally outside the 300 North Los Angeles Street Federal Building in Los Angeles, California, protesting the trials of Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and Ericka Huggins, founder of the BPP's New Haven chapter. In 1970, as part of the 19691971 New Haven Black Panther trials, Seale and Huggins were tried for the murder of suspected FBI informant Alex Rackley. The flier advertises speakers from the BPP, the "C.U.P.P." (unknown, possibly a branch of the BPP) and the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis. Charges against Seale and Huggins were dismissed in 1971 after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. We find no other examples on WorldCat. Approximately 5 x 8 inches. Near fine with tiny chip to upper margin.

Condition: Near Fine. Broadside. 29 x 22 cm.

Black Panther Party for Self Defense, Ministry of Information Black Paper. Position of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense on the Seventh Congressional District Election and the candidacy of John George in the Democratic Party. Oakland, California: Black Panther Party for Self Defense. [1968]. Four panel brochure. Measures 5.5" x 8.5". The pamphlet opens with criticism of the Democratic Party's treatment of Black people, quoting "The Case for and Independent Black Political Party" which states " 'Under duress it throws black people a few concessions, a few posts, a few tokens to placate them though it has no intention of ending racism. The two-party set-up fosters the illusion that black people will get freedom through gradual reform of capitalism and its institutions." It suggests that the then imprisoned Huey P. Newton run as the Peace and Freedom Party's congressional candidate which could help save his life from government machinations and further discusses his contributions to the Black Power movement. Overall very good condition.

12 page tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, evenly toned, otherwise very good condition. Cover story is on the drafting of Stokely Carmichael - not by the US military, but by the Panthers, with their "Executive Mandate 2" (text included inside this issue).