International Women's Day

Double-page, centerfold Ad from Quicksilver Times, March 3-16, 1972, Vol.4, No.4

Very Rare! Int'l Women's Day Poster -1972 - Red Star Sisters

This poster is very rare! It was distributed in early 1972 as the centerfold in an underground newspaper in Washington, D.C. The symbol is for the Red Star Sisters (women from the White Panther Party). The White Panther Party was a far-left, anti-racist, white American political collective founded in 1968 by Pun Plamondon, Leni Sinclair, and John Sinclair. It was started in response to an interview where Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was asked what white people could do to support the Black Panthers. Newton replied that they could form a White Panther Party. The counterculture era group took the name and dedicated its energies to "cultural revolution." Sinclair made every effort to ensure that the White Panthers were not mistaken for a white supremacist group, responding to such claims with "quite the contrary." The group was based in Michigan with chapters across the United States. It was very active in the radical left movement of the 1960's.
22 3/4" x 16 3/4"