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BLACK POWER FIST button -1969 Black Panther FRED HAMPTON Assassinated in Chicago
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Description
VINTAGE and HISTORIC1969
BLACK POWER
Button
1 1/4" with straight pin - Mad
e in the USA
FIST
The iconic "Hand", created and designed, in 1965,
by Frank Cieciorka
, a
SNCC
Field
Secretary.
It has been used, since, by Movement Organizations
Worldwide. The raised fist is a universal symbol of
Resistance, Persistance, and Power.
This particular button was made in December,
1969 for the
Black Panther Party
, following
the assassination,
by the
Chicago Police
Department
, of
FRED
HAMPTON
, who, as the
chairman of the Illinois
Chapter of the Black
Panther Party and Deputy
Chairman
of
The National Black Panther Party.
The pin has the Fox Buttons Credit Line,
located at that time, in Hempstead, N.Y.,
along with a union bug on the curl.
There is no rust or discoloration.
An
Original
from the collection of
LARRY FOX - "The Button Man" (Member: A.P.I.C.)
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