Emory Douglas

 “As minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party, Emory Douglas visualised the party’s ideology and used art to educate and inspire people to action. Douglas art is part of a long tradition of activist protest graphics. His critiques of racism, inequality, capitalism, and imperialism are still relevant. In forty years since Emory’s first appeared, racism poverty, and illegal wars continue, and his art remains a powerful weapon against social injustice.” Carol A Wells, Centre for the Study of political Graphics, Los Angeles.

Douglas created images of a way of life that had very little visual record at that time and I imagine that seeing a graphic image of themselves in print must have been extremely empowering for the children of the ghetto in the late nineteen sixties.