[CIVIL RIGHTS - BLACK PANTHERS]. 6 items involving the Black Panther Party and the Watts Riots.

"PEOPLE'S BUCKS - POWER TO THE PEOPLE." Printed "money," approx. 6 x 3 1/4 in., ca 1960's. Anti-government protest item, alternate currency with drawing of Che Guevara at center. Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver listed as Treasurer, while White Panther Party founder John Sinclair is listed as Secretary of the Treasury. A rare item. -- "Fair elections / Justice for Huey P. Newton / & / The Black Panther / Party." Silver pin, approx. 1 in. diameter.

[With:] The Berkeley Tribe. Vol. 1, No. 10, 12-18 September 1969. 28pp. With front page content regarding "The Black Moochie" and the Black Panthers. The Berkeley Tribe was a weekly counterculture underground newspaper published in Berkeley, California from 1969-1972. -- Cogito. Vol. 1, No. 7. 20pp. [1969]. An underground counterculture newspaper published in Syracuse, New York.

[Also with:] "Leary and Cleaver in Beirut." AP Wire photo by cable from Algiers showing Eldridge Cleaver and Dr. Timothy Leary together leaving Algiers Airport. -- BROWN, Edmund G. Typed letter signed (likely secretarial) as Governor of California. Addressed to Her Excellency Katharine E. White, American Ambassador to Denmark. Sacramento, CA: 25 August 1965. 1p. Brown references his cancelled trip to Copenhagen on account of "the violent problem in Southern California" [the Watt's Riots].

This lot is located in Cincinnati.