Item #39820 The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume I, #6 (Oakland, CA: November 23, 1967). BLACK PANTHER PARTY.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume I, #6 (Oakland, CA: November 23, 1967).
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume I, #6 (Oakland, CA: November 23, 1967).
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume I, #6 (Oakland, CA: November 23, 1967).

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The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume I, #6 (Oakland, CA: November 23, 1967).

Tabloid format newspaper, published bi-weekly. 12pp. (incl. cover).

The front page editorial, headlined “Huey Must Be Set Free!” and accompanied by Blair Stapp’s famous portrait photograph of Newton, begins: “Huey Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, lies in the hospital at San Quentin State Prison, with a gunshot wound in his stomach, inflicted by an Oakland cop.”

One of the doctors who treated Newton at the Kaiser Hospital in Oakland immediately after the shooting contributes an article on page 6 in which she apologises for Newton being manacled to the examining table (a photograph on page 8 shows him handcuffed while being administered treatment).

Artwork by Emory Douglas, who by this stage was responsible for the layout and overall design of the newspaper, appears on page 3 (“These little pigs went to the ghetto…”), page 5 (“The Swine Trough”, accompanied by headshots of two of the police officers involved in the Newton shooting, and a badge design “In H. Rap Brown We Trust - Black Power”), page 8, page 9 (an armed Black guerrilla accompanied by a Che Guevara quote, a depiction of militant resistance inspired by Third World liberation movements), and page 11 (“War on Poverty”, a recurring theme).

A full-page photograph remembering Malcolm X appears on page 7, accompanied by a text by “soul brother Marcus Aurelius Garvey”, and the back page offers a selection of revolutionary posters, books and pamphlets available for sale from the Panther offices.

Old, faint central horizontal fold; short (2cm.) closed tear to lower edge of two pages; o/w Very Good plus.

A rare, early issue, its front cover featuring the iconic photograph of Huey Newton.

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