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(PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY). Peace and Freedom Party. Berkeley. ND (1968): Peace and Freedom Party. Edition Not Stated. Folio. Printed Sheet. Political Campaign Poster. Very Good -.. One 22 ½ x 17" sheet printed offset recto only, no illustrations. "In 1968, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover vilified the Black Panthers as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States". So, imagine the generational divide for the country when Eldridge Cleaver, author of "Soul on Ice", Senior Editor of "Ramparts" Magazine, and Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party qualified for the ballot in some twenty states that same year as the Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party. Wrote "The New York Times" that November, "Running on a platform of immediate withdrawal from Vietnam and support of the Black liberation movement. Eldridge Cleaver can present the only electoral challenge to the discreditable politics of Nixon, Humphrey, and Wallace." Printed by union press workers at noted leftist press Berkeley Graphic Arts, this attention getting poster was used during 1968 to register California voters in support of the Peace and Freedom Party's Eldridge Cleaver For President / Peggy Terry for Vice-President ticket. A still bright, well-preserved flat vintage example of this bit of countercultural political history showing some light handling creases and a few minor brown stains along the top and bottom edges. Inventory Number: 027306