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Lot 84
Sale 1310 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Feb 27, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
500
Price Realized
$635
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Lot Description
[CIVIL RIGHTS] -- [DAVIS, Angela Yvonne (b.1944 )]. Wanted by the FBI: Interstate Flight - Murder, Kidnaping [sic]. Washington, D.C.: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 18 August 1970.
10 1/2 x 16 in. FBI "Wanted" poster (creases at folds). Poster features two images of Davis, descriptions of her physical characteristics, and details on the nature of her alleged offenses. Verso lists addresses and telephone numbers for FBI field offices as well as FBI return address and postage paid imprints.
Following an armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, California, in which four persons were killed, it was determined that guns owned by Angela Davis were utilized in the commissioning of the crime. Davis was charged in connection with the courtroom killings, and a warrant was issued for her arrest. On August 18, 1970, four days after the warrant was issued, the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover listed Davis on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.
[With:] Vintage brown cotton t-shirt with collar and sleeves trimmed in white, size large, ca 1980-1984, featuring a silhouetted image of Angela Davis and text: "Angela Davis / Vice Presidential Candiddate [sic] / Communist Party, USA / Saturday, April 12, 3:00pm / Student Union Ballroom / University of Massachusetts / Amherst."
Long politically active, Angela Davis ran as the Communist Party USA's nominee for vice president in 1980 and 1984, alongside running mate Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party USA.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.



