Black Panther Party﻿

Black Panther Part Poster, Political prints

Flyers and posters have always been one of the cheapest, quickest and most anonymous ways of showing political stands. The Black Panther Party often uses this technique with direct and confrontational text such as

An Attack Against One Is An Attack Against All

The Slaughter of Black People Must Be Stopped! By Any Means Necessary!

With posters and flyers, it also does not directly say who made it except for the image of the panther, a common recurrence throughout their posters.

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Source: Black Panther Party Flyer

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Source: Black Panther Party Flyer

New commercial processes allowed colour to be reproduced quickly, allowing a more ‘pop art’ look to the posters and flyers. In one of the more well known pop art and colourful posters of the Black Panther Party, the lady in the poster is distributing posters and flyers. This makes her vocal about the text, but to back her up she has a gun over her shoulder and she doesn’t look afraid to use it. This supports the very strong political views of the Black Panther Party, and emphasises that they are not afraid themselves of speaking out against everyone else.

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