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Lot 226
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$200 -
300
Price Realized
$189
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[BLACK PANTHER PARTY]. Free Bobby Seale. Sausalito, CA: Frederick Sternkopf, Friends of the Glove, ca 1969.
19 x 25 in. (some edge and corner wear).
Features a large portrait of Bobby Seale, who had been arrested as one of the original "Chicago Eight" charged with conspiracy and inciting a riot in the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He was never convicted but sentenced to four years for 16 counts of contempt. During this prison sentence he was further prosecuted in the New Haven Black Panther trials.