Poster for Black Panther Party Illinois Chapter Chairman Fred Hampton
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1969
name: label: Designed by
content: Emory Douglas, American, born 1943
label: Distributed by
content: Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982
label: Subject of
content: Fred Hampton, American, 1948 - 1969
notes: label: Description
content: This poster depicts an image of Fred Hampton gesticulating against a larger than life portrait of his head, against a blue and black stripe background. The monumental image wears a dark cap and is shown from the neck up. Radiating from this monumental head are thick blue and black stripes. Two of the black stripes have blue text. The top reads "You can jail a revolutionary/ but you can't jail the/ revolution. You can run a/ freedom fighter around the/ country but you can't run freedom/ fighting around the country. You/ can murder a liberator, / but you can't murder/ liberation." The second quote reads "Fred Hampton Deputy/ Chairman Illinois Chapter/ Black Panther Party/ Born August 30, 1948/ Murdered by Fascist Pigs/ Dec. 4, 1969." In the bottom right corner is an image of Fred Hampton shown from the chest up. Standing in front of a microphone, he wears an open coat and has his right arm raised in a pointing gesture. In the margin below the image in the bottom right corner is a black panther between two blocks of text. The text on the left reads "PHONE NO. / 312/ 243-8776/ 738-0778." Text on the right reads "BLACK PANTHER PARTY/ 2350 W. MADISON ST. / CHICAGO, ILLINOIS."
place: label: Place made
content: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Black power
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Graphic design
label: Topic
content: Political organizations
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.97.10
objectType: label: Type
content: posters
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Artists Rights Society
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 20 7/8 × 16 in. (53.1 × 40.6 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 22 1/8 × 16 9/16 in. (56.2 × 42 cm)