Poster for a rally in support of Huey Newton: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A paper poster for the Free Huey Rally at De Fremery Park, Oakland, California, 1968.

Prominently depicted to the left, stretching the majority of the length of the poster, is Lisa Lyons design of a black panther. Lyons’s signature is printed in curling lowercase by the bottom claw of the panther. In large black block type from the top right going down, reads: [FREE HUEY / RALLY / SUNDAY JULY 28 / DE FREMERY / PARK / 1PM / Eldridge Cleaver / Bobby Seale / Stokely Carmichael / Reies Tijerina / Ivan Dixon / Mike Klonsky / National Secretary, SDS / Peace and Freedom / spokesman]. Towards the bottom of the poster, in line with the clawed foot of the panther, there is: [BARBEQUE! BLACK DANCERS! MUSICIANS! / THEATER!]. There are waves of wrinkling along the edges of the poster, recto. The back of the poster also shows wrinkling, and two small pieces of tape.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968
• Designed by: Lisa Lyons, American
• Distributed by: Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982
• Subject of: Dr. Huey P. Newton, American, 1942 - 1989
• Subject of: Reies Tijerina, Mexican American, 1926 - 2015
• Subject of: Ivan Dixon, American, 1931 - 2008
• Subject of: Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian American, 1941 - 1998
• Subject of: Eldridge Cleaver, American, 1935 - 1998
• Subject of: Bobby Seale, American, born 1936
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 21 11/16 × 17 1/8 in. (55.1 × 43.5 cm)
• Place depicted: Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Black power
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Design
• Topic: Graphic design
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Resistance
• Object number: 2019.28.20
• 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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