BPP stamp book

Edition of 100, 2021

Black Panther Party Book of Postage Stamps, 2021 A portfolio of 25 stamps, printed on dry gum adhesive paper with pinhole perfo- ration. Housed in a blue Asahi book cloth clamshell box screen printed with the logo. Screen printed inside front and back pages on paper. Edition of 100. The book is signed and numbered on the inside back page and on the back of each print.

Measurements: Box: 9.3125”height, 11.75”width, .875”depth (closed) Stamp Pages: 8.5” x 11”

1. A photo taken at a Free Huey Newton Rally in 1968 with five of the six women identifiable—Delores Henderson, Joyce Lee, Mary Ann Carlton, Joyce Means and Paula Hill

Photographer: Pirkle Jones, American, 1914 - 2009

2. Black and white poster of Huey Newton and Distributed by Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982 3. Free Huey/Free Bobby Rally, San Francisco, California, 1970 Photographer: Stephen Shames, American, born 1947

Photo is of unidentified men, women and children

This stamp carrys the original Black Panther Party (BPP) logo, designed by Doro- thy Zellner

4. Angela Davis speaks at a Free Huey Rally in DeFremery Park, Oakland, Nov. 12, 1969

Photographer: Stephen Shames, American, born 1947 Angela Y. Davis, American, born 1944

Angela Davis speaks at a Free Huey Rally in DeFremery Park, Oakland, Nov. 12, 1969

5. Flier for the Black Community Survival Conference Original flyer was created by Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982

Huggins, Ericka, American, born 1948

6. Imagre is from a “Free Bobby”, “Free Erikca” rally flier in New Haven, Connecticut.

This stamp carrys the original Black Panther Party (BPP) logo, designed by Doro- thy Zellner 7. , February 11, 1945 – January 17, 1969

Here’s a good piece by Boby Seale on the importance of both John and Bunchy https://m.facebook.com/bobby.seale01/photos /a.10151381233279558/10152602840939558/?type=3&locale2=ja_JP

This stamp carrys the original Black Panther Party (BPP) logo, designed by Doro- thy Zellner

8. Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter, October 12, 1942 – January 17, 1969 Carter is credited as a founding member of the Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party.

9. Huey P. Newton, February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989 co-founding and Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party (BPP)

10. Black Panther Party members outside the Criminal Courts Building in New York, May 1, 1969. They are protesting following the charging of 21 Panthers with a plot to blow up New York City stores, railway infrastructure, and a police station.

This stamp carries the original Black Panther Party (BPP) logo, designed by Doro- thy Zellner

Photographer: Jack Manning 11. Glen Wheeler and Claudia Grayson, known as Sister Sheeba, stand outside George Jackson’s funeral at St. Augustine’s Church, Oakland, California, August 1971

Photographer: Stephen Shames, American, born 1947

12. George Jackson’s pallbearers line up outside St. Augustine Episcopal Church waiting for the hearse. Pallbearers included Billy X Jennings, Sam Castle, Bobby Bowen, Alden, Tick and Darrell

Photographer: Stephen Shames

13. George Jackson, San Quentin Prison, November 5, 1970 photographer: Ruth-Marion Baruch, 1922-1997

14. George Jackson, September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971 15. Black Panther Party logo designed by

16. Robert James Hutton,April 21, 1950 – April 6, 1968, known as “Lil’ Bobby”, was the treasurer and first recruit to join the Black Panther Party.

17. , Dirksen Federal Building, 1969 Hampton was the Deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party

Photographer: Paul Sequeira

18. Fredrick Allen Hampton, August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969 Image from the cover of a Revolutionary Youth Movement newspaper 19.

Photographer: Ron Riesterer

20. Attica Prison Uprising, September, 1971

Photographer: Otto Bettmann

21. Clockwise from top left: Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, and Fred Hampton

22. Black Panther Party members at a Rally in 1968 23. Seattle Black Panther Party protestors, capitol building, Olympia. February 28, 1969

24. Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party Cleaver speaking at Black Panther Rally in Oakland, California, 1968.

Photographer: Ron Riesterer

25. Party members in West Oakland, 1970.