OUTSTANDING PAN-AFRICANISM "SMASH THE FBI & CIA" POSTER WITH IMAGE OF M.L. KING AND MALCOLM X.
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14x17" cardstock poster. Reproduces famous image of lone meeting of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and image of Kwame Nkrumah and Patrice Lumuba. Text at top reads "Smash The FBI & CIA: Enemies Of The African Revolution." Additional text at bottom reads "These Four Beloved African Freedom Fighters Were All Liquidated By The FBI-CIA, The Secret Arm Of American Imperialism-The Enemy Of Africans And All Of Mankind. We Must Build The All African Peoples Revolutionary Party" w/party logo at right. Corners and top center have light brown tape residue. Dating this poster is difficult. President of Ghana Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966 and the choice of the word "liquidation" indicates to us this poster was most likely produced before his death in 1972. Add to this that noted civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael left the US in 1969 and began studying under the exiled Nkrumha and that King was assassinated in 1968 it seems likely that this was produced c. 1970. Additionally we note that Lumumba was deposed as Prime Minister of Congo in 1960 and executed in January of 1961. Both Nkrumah and Lumumba fought against colonization and championed the ideology of Pan-Africanism. Carmichael likely produced this poster for efforts to increase interest in the AAPRP and Pan-Africanism in the United States. Vertical crease extending the length of the poster and affecting the right hand side of King's face. Very light surface paper lift at bottom right affecting the bottom of the logo and scattered handling wear and dots of age toning. VG. This poster is an example of rarity, history and content outweighing the flaws. Among the most radical civil rights era posters produced and easily the finest Pan-African artifact we have ever encountered.
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