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Revolutionary Student
Douglas, Emory - Enlarge image
Revolutionary Student
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
USA, USA (made)
- Date:
1970 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Douglas, Emory (illustrator)
Black Panther Party (publishers) - Materials and Techniques:
Offset lithograph
- Credit Line:
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
- Museum number:
E.303-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case Y66, shelf E
The Black Panther Party was a militant civil rights group. Its initial purpose was the patrolling of black ghettos to protect residents from police brutality. The carrying of guns was integral to this policy of self-defence and symbolic of it. The Party also urged the black community to be self-reliant and advocated the teaching of Black History. Emory Douglas (the Panther's Minister for Culture) fuses these principles in this poster. The revolutionary student wears non-American dress and carries a Black Studies book along with the trademark firearm.
