James Baldwin's Statement to Angela

Original poster

From the Buffalo Committee to Free Angela Davis

Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Committee to Free Angela Davis / October Graphics, [1971]. Silkscreen poster measuring 29" x 22.5, in black on white. Near Fine with minimal wear. Printed by October Graphics designer Vinton Kirk, using the concluding lines of James Baldwin's "An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis": "The enormous revolution in black consciousness which has occurred in your generation, my dear sister, means the beginning of the end of America. Some of us, white and black, know how great a price has already been paid to bring into existence a new consciousness, a new people, an unprecedented nation [...] For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night."