Item #39840 The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume VI, #6 (Berkeley, CA: March 6, 1971). BLACK PANTHER PARTY.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume VI, #6 (Berkeley, CA: March 6, 1971).
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume VI, #6 (Berkeley, CA: March 6, 1971).
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume VI, #6 (Berkeley, CA: March 6, 1971).
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume VI, #6 (Berkeley, CA: March 6, 1971).
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume VI, #6 (Berkeley, CA: March 6, 1971).
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume VI, #6 (Berkeley, CA: March 6, 1971).
The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume VI, #6 (Berkeley, CA: March 6, 1971).

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The Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume VI, #6 (Berkeley, CA: March 6, 1971).

Tabloid format newspaper, published weekly. 16pp. (incl. cover) + 4pp. supplement by Elaine Brown.

The “Free Kathleen Cleaver And All Political Prisoners” issue, published two days after Eldridge Cleaver (in Algiers) announced that he had expelled Huey Newton (in Oakland) from the Black Panther Party. Back cover artwork by Emory Douglas, captioned “Shoot To Kill”.

Other contents include news from the trial of Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins; the Young Lords Party and its Rainbow Coalition with the BPP and the Young Patriots Organization (“a poor white progressive group”); a full-page “Letter from Kathleen Cleaver to Ericka Huggins” (Huggins spent 14 years as a Black Panther, the party’s longest serving woman); a full page on the 9mm FN Browning High Power pistol; and a full-page advertisement for an Intercommunal Day of Solidarity with all political prisoners and “Post-Birthday Celebration for Huey P. Newton” at the Oakland Auditorium on March 5. The ad. lists speakers Huey Newton and Kathleen Cleaver (though she failed to appear), and music by The Lumpen, The Vanguard, and The Grateful Dead.

In “There’s A Riot Going On”, Peter Doggett quotes Jerry Garcia explaining the apparent incongruity of a white rock band appearing at a Panther event: “We have some loose semi-association with the Black Panthers because we met Huey and got along with him. We don’t deal with things on the basis of content, the idea of a philosophy or any of that shit - mostly it’s personalities. [The show] did what it was supposed to do - it made them some bread” (p. 411).

Old central horizontal fold and slight age-toning, o/w Very Good plus.

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