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The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume IV, #13 (Berkeley, CA: February 28, 1970).
Tabloid format newspaper, published weekly. 24pp. (incl. cover).
Front cover artwork by Emory Douglas depicts an armed guerrilla with the caption: “One Of Our Main Purposes Is To Unify Our Brothers And Sisters In The North With Our Brothers And Sisters In The South”; the back cover, also by Douglas and headlined “Community Control of Police”, shows a Pig exploded into fragments and a locked bird cage containing imprisoned Pigs, illustrating the frustration with police behaviour in the Black community.
Contents include extensive coverage of the various Panther trials and legal battles; “Happy Birthday Huey” messages from Eldridge Cleaver and others; Bobby Seale on the “Conspiracy 7 Trial and the Arresting of the Patriots”; an editorial on “The Role of the Black Panther Party”; and news of breakfast programmes opening in LA and Kansas City.
Old central horizontal fold (slightly rubbed), and minor wear to head and tail of spine, o/w Very Good plus.
