06/05/2026
Iconic revolutionary artist, Emory Douglas was a student of commercial art at City College of San Francisco in the 1960s when he began making trips to see Stokely Carmichael, Amirite Baraka, and H. Rap Brown speak.
He soon began creating flyers and other promotional artwork to advertise events for the Black Arts Movement before meeting Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1967. Douglas soon joined the Black Panther Party and quickly rose in the ranks.
As Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers, Douglas helped to define the aesthetics of protest at the height of the Civil Rights era and solidified his status as one of the 20th century's most influential radical political artists.
