Large original headshop poster 23" x 35" printed on thick yellow paper stock, produced in 1970. Wanted design with faces of Angela Davis, H. Rap Brown and Eldridge Cleaver.

Political activist Angela Davis became involved in numerous causes, including the second-wave feminist movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War. In 1970, guns belonging to Davis were used in an armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, in which four people were killed. Prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, she was held in jail for over a year before being acquitted of all charges in 1972. Davis has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. In 2020, she was listed as the 1971 Woman of the Year in Time magazine's 100 Women of the Year edition.

Writer and political activist, Eldridge Cleaver became a prominent member of the Black Panthers, along with his wife Kathleen, having the titles Minister of Information and Head of the International Section of the Panthers. Eldridge Cleaver was a Presidential Candidate in 1968 on the ticket of the Peace and Freedom Party.

On April 6, 1968, two days after of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, there were riots across the country. Cleaver and 14 other Black Panther members were involved in an ambush by Oakland police officers and two officers were shot & wounded. Cleaver was also wounded during the ambush. Charged with attempted murder after the incident, he jumped bail and fled to Cuba in late 1968, and then traveled to Algeria in exile.

This poster is a true period piece.

--CRITICAL DETAILS--
--TITLE: Wanted Angela Davis Eldridge Cleaver
--GRADE: NEAR MINT 81
--DATE: 1970
--DIMENSIONS: 35 in. x 23 in.
--PRINTING: OP-1; Poster