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A reformatted and reduced price edition of the primary book to turn the provocative posters and groundbreaking graphics of the Black Panther Birthday party. The Black Panther Birthday party for Self Defense, formed within the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized subjugation of African Americans. The Black Panther newspaper was once founded to articulate the Birthday party’s message, and artist Emory Douglas become the paper’s art director and later the Birthday party’s minister of culture. Douglas’s artistic talents and enjoy proved a powerful combination: his striking collages of photographs and his own drawings combined to create one of the most era’s such a lot iconic images. This landmark book brings in combination a remarkable lineup of Birthday party insiders who detail the crafting of the Birthday party’s visual identity.