Poster featuring Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, and H. Rap Brown: Museum Object and Cultural History
Poster featuring Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, and H. Rap Brown: Date: 1970. Created by: Unidentified Man or Men. Subject of: Eldridge Cleaver, American, 1935 - 1998.
The object in the museum catalogue
Monochrome poster, unmounted, featuring illustrations of three Black Panther Party members, H. Rap Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, and Angela Davis. The poster declares "WANTED," "FAITH, BEAUTY, INTEGRITY" with the reward listed as "LOVE-PEACE-HAPPINESS." The artist's signature is in the lower right corner and is listed as [Mohamed K].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1970
- Created by: Unidentified Man or Men
- Subject of: Eldridge Cleaver, American, 1935 - 1998
- Subject of: Angela Y. Davis, American, born 1944
- Subject of: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, American, born 1943
- Subject of: Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982
- Type: posters
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 35 x 23 in. (88.9 x 58.4 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Black power
- Topic: Justice
- Topic: Social reform
- Object number: 2012.26.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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