[BLACK PANTHER PARTY]. Tabloid sheet containing manifestos by Eldridge Cleaver and Huey P. Newton. Oakland, CA: Black Panther Party, 1970.

4pp, 11 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (creased with some separation, chipping to edge).

Front page features Eldridge Cleaver's "On the Constitution" beneath a collage of Black Panther images including an illustration of Party Chaiman Bobby Seale strapped to the electric chair. Inside spread features the Party's "Message to America, Delivered on the 107th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation at Washington, D.C. Capitol of Babylon, World Racism, and Imperialism June 19, 1970 by the Black Panther Party." Back page features Huey P. Newton's "Towards a New Constitution."

The messages contained in this paper outline the position of the Black Panther Party, along with its vision for the future. In "Message to America," the Party calls for a Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention to write a new constitution "that will guarantee us a society in which Human Rights are supreme and Justice is assured to every man, woman, and child within its jurisdiction." Newton's concluding treatise warns against compromise, calling it "Reactionary Suicide" to accept anything short of the radical change they are seeking. He ends by reminding his readers of the ultimate goal: "I would add that it must always be remembered, understood, and realized, that our one goal is to crush American Capitalism and American Imperialism. Because without this, we can do nothing."

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[BLACK PANTHER PARTY]. Tabloid sheet containing manifestos by Eldridge Cleaver and Huey P. Newton. Oakland, CA: Black Panther Party, 1970.

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