2010.54.766

A Benefit for White Panther Party Legal Defense
1968
22.5 in HIGH x 17.5 in WIDE
(57.15 cm HIGH x 44.45 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.766

Bottom left has "Poster Design: Guy Clowell" and the bottom right has "Printing: Fits Press."

Poster has a red background with two black and white drawings in the center and white text around. The drawing on the left depicts two men being forced to build a brick wall by an older man holding money and a police officer. There are silhouettes of men and women above with handcuffs. The drawing on the right depicts the same two men using a pick axe and a sledge hammer to break through the wall and release a group of people. The pster reads, "People's Ballroom Presents/ Dance/ Benefit/ Hot Tuna/ Mike Bloomfield/ Sound Hole/ All Tickets $3.00 at the door/ information/ 386-9914/ Longshoreman's Hall/ 400 North Point, S.F./ Wed. Sept. 17. 7:30 P.M. - 1 A.M./ A Benefit for White Panther Party Legal Defense." The White Panther Party was a Detroit and Ann Arbor- based leftist and anti-racist political collective founded in 1968. [LMC]
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