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Message to the Movement

2011

Angola, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America

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

A paper pamphlet interview “Message to the Movement” with journalist and current prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal titled, owned by Herman Wallace while incarcerated at Angola Prison. The front cover of the pamphlet is primarily grey with square black sections at the top and bottom, five thick black vertical bars in the center; a white candle at the bottom of the middle black bar, and white linked chains from end to end of the paper. Above the bottom black section on the left is a small black circle with the name “R. Black” inside. In the bottom black section of the cover in bold grey ink is: [OCCUPIED MEDIA / PAMPHLET SERIES / C/O ADELANTE ALLIANCE / 405 61 STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11220 / OCCUPY@ADELANTEALLIANCE.ORG]. The first page of the pamphlet gives a brief summary of Mumia Abu-Jamal and all of the hands involved in the pamphlet’s publication.

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Catalog reference: A2018.36.1.6

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