Only on the bones of the oppressors...
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1970
name: label: publisher
content: Black Panther Party
notes: label: Description
content: A poster suporting the Black Panther Party. The Black Panthers are a revolutionary socialist political organization founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.
label: Description
content: This is a white poster with a black border. There are eleven stripes, alternating blue and white, in a sunburst pattern. In the center, there is a figure of a Black man with his right arm raised and his shirt sleeves folded back. In his right hand is a machine gun. There is a red outline of his thumb and the thumbnail is red. He is wearing a beret. His eyes are red and his mouth is open as if shouting. On the left side of the poster are the words in italics, uppercase letters: "ONLY ON THE BONES OF THE OPPRESSOR CAN THE PEOPLE'S FREEDOM BE FOUNDED -- ONLY THE BLOOD OF THE OPPRESSOR CAN FERTILIZE THE SOIL FOR THE PEOPLE'S SELF-RULE." In the bottom center of the poster, outside the border, is a black panther. In the lower left corner is a description of Emory Douglas, the artist who designed the poster. In italics are the words "Revolutionary art by Minister of Culture EMORY." On the lower right corner are the words written in italics, "Ministry of Information / Box 2967 Custom House/ San Francisco CA 94126.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: referenced
content: United States: California, San Francisco
topic: label: used
content: Black Power Movement
label: associated community
content: African American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Civil Rights Collection
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content: Princeton Posters
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alonzo Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0210.10
label: accession number
content: 2005.0210
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black; red; blue; grey (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 1/2 in x 17 1/2 in; 57.15 cm x 44.45 cm