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Bobby Seale Campaigns for Mayor of Oakland and Elaine Brown Campaigns for City Council, Oakland, California, 1972

1972, printed 2014

Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white photograph of Bobby Seale campaigning for Mayor of Oakland. Seale, at the proper right of the photograph, is wearing an overcoat, button-down shirt and tie, and he is gesturing with both hands. Seale is accompanied by Elaine Brown, who stands at the center of the photograph, wearing a fur coat belted with a leather belt. Brown is looking at Seale while shaking hands with a man at the proper left of the photograph. The man is looking at Seale and appears to be listening to him intently. They are standing on a sidewalk in front of houses.

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Catalog reference: 2014.123.9

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