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

Photograph by

Shames, Stephen, American, born 1947

Subject of

Brown, Elaine, American, born 1943

Seale, Bobby, American, born 1936

Unidentified Man or Men

Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982

Medium

silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper

Dimensions

H x W (Sheet): 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)

H x W (Image): 12 5/8 × 18 5/8 in. (32.1 × 47.3 cm)

Type

gelatin silver prints

portraits

Place depicted

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

Date

1972, printed 2014

Description

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.

Topic

African American

Black power

Photography

Politics (Practical)

Resistance

Social reform

United States--History--1969-2001

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number

2014.123.9

Restrictions & Rights

© Stephen Shames

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification

Media Arts-Photography

Data Source

National Museum of African American History and Culture