By 1969, they’d established free health clinics, a credited elementary school, and fed 10,000 hungry kids breakfast every day. In the beginning, the Panthers functioned as a community organization and neighborhood watch-protecting black Oaklanders from police brutality. BermanLike many other radical organizations of the 1960s and ‘70s, the Black Panthers was started by college students-Huey Newton and Bobby Seale-in Oakland, California, 1966. Lithograph on paper Collection of Merrill C. Edgar Hoover publicly condemned them as “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.”Distributed by the Robert Brown Elliott League, An Attack Against One is An Attack Against All, ca.1970. While almost half of all young African Americans had a “great respect” for the Panthers, FBI Director J. Their forthright rejection of reform struck fear into the hearts and minds of many Americans. The caption reads: “The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.”To this day, the Panthers’ history remains greatly shrouded in mystery and notoriety. In this portrait, he acknowledges the centuries-long history of colonialism and threatens to break down the system itself. Newton is not an object controlled by Western colonists: he is a crusader against it. And it is with him that this photo turns the genre’s stereotype on its head. The photo at once mocks Western colonialist portraiture-the zebra rug, the unambiguously “tribal” props in the background, but this stops at Newton. His expression is stern and his gaze meets the eye. BermanNewton proudly poses on his rattan throne: spear in one hand, rifle in the other. Among the posters on display is the perhaps the Panthers’ most iconic image: Huey Newton seated in a wicker chair.Photography attributed to Blair Stapp, Composition by Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton seated in wicker chair, 1967. The posters and broadsides focus on the American labor movement (centered around the Communist Party), as well as major mass movements of the 1960s and ‘70s, including the rise of the Black Panther Party. Despite their varying messages-some promote violence, others peace some champion reform, others revolution-these works collectively showcase powerful political messages that went “viral” decades before the birth of the internet. VisitExhibitionsProgramsLibraryEducationExploreShop Join & Give New Wing Host an Event Dine Admission Tickets Jin Behind the ScenesBlack Panthers: Art and HistoryOpening Friday, June 26, our provocative exhibition Art as Activism features 72 posters from the 1930s through 1970s. CensusMembershipFAQsJoin & GiveNew WingHost an EventDineAdmission TicketsAdmission TicketsSuggested TermsVirtual ExhibitionsThe Civil WarU.S. Black Panthers: Art and History | New-York Historical Society Skip to contentVisitExhibitionsProgramsLibraryEducationExploreShopSuggested TermsVirtual ExhibitionsThe Civil WarU.S.
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