(BLACK POWER.) Inner City Voice presents H. Rap Brown on the Detroit Rebellion....

(BLACK POWER.) Inner City Voice presents H. Rap Brown on the Detroit Rebellion. Poster, 17 x 14 inches, on thin paper; minor dampstaining and soiling, laid down on later board, coming loose in one corner. Detroit, MI, 27 August [1967]

This poster advertised an important lecture on the Detroit Rebellion less than a month after the last fire was extinguished and the Army withdrew its troops. It was sponsored by the Inner City Voice, here billed as "Detroit's Black Community Newspaper," which had been founded earlier that year. The speaker H. Rap Brown (also known as Hubert Gerold Brown or Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) was then serving as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Although he had not been present for the Detroit Rebellion, he was having a dramatic month as well. On 24 July, while Detroit was burning, Brown, after delivering a speech in Cambridge, MD, was shot by a deputy sheriff and then arrested for inciting a riot. With the high profile of both Brown and Detroit, the speech drew a crowd of 2,000; hundreds of newspapers across the country covered the story. The Detroit Free Press described his talk as "a harangue against the white race" and asserted that their photographer had been kicked and beaten. We trace no other example of this poster.