ABSTRACT
In 1968 artist Cleveland Bellow transferred a photo negative through silk onto paper to make a print of a young African American whose hands were raised over his head. The prone figure of a bearded Black man seems to be crawling forward out of the lower circle, raising his head and extending his left arm to point a finger just left of the viewer. The profits would enrich the Black Panther Party Legal Defense Fund and raise money for the Peace and Freedom Party candidacies of Seale for California State Assembly and Newton for Congress. Despite having been incarcerated since 1961, George Jackson was a respected member of the Black Panther Party, appointed Field Marshall and assigned to prisoner recruitment within Soledad Prison. When the Black Panthers came to speak at California College of Arts and Crafts in April 1968, Philip Lindsay Mason may have been a member.
