BLACK PANTHER BOBBY HUTTON CIRCA 1967-68 PORTRAIT BUTTON PAIR.
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Auction #213 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1062 in auction 213
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Item Description
Each is 1.75" done in Dayglo fluorescent colors with the first in Blaze Orange and the second in Corona Magenta. Hutton was the treasurer and first recruit to join the Oakland based Black Panther Party. Following the assassination of Dr. King April 4, 1968, Eldridge Cleaver and 13 other Panthers staged an ambush of the Oakland police during which two officers where seriously wounded and in which Hutton was killed. Buttons are NM displaying Mint.
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