Lot 399

[BLACK PANTHERS]. [CLEAVER, Leroy Eldridge (1935-1998)]. Wa...

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[BLACK PANTHERS]. [CLEAVER, Leroy Eldridge (1935-1998)]. Wanted by the FBI. Interstate flight - Assault with intent to commit murder. Washington, D.C., 13 December 1968. Flier or poster (406 x 267 mm), printed on both sides, pinhole, old folds as issued, some marginal browning or soiling. Cleaver was a political activist, author, and early leader of the Black Panther Party. Cleaver became a fugitive after assisting in an ambush on Oakland police officers in April 1968, fleeing to Cuba and then Algeria. He returned to the US in 1977.