Wattstax Festival Watts Riots 1972 Black Panther Party Blaxploitation Woodstock

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DETAILS:
Original pinback button issued for the 1972 Wattstax Music Festival / Watts Summer Festival. Side curl reads: Western Badge, LA, Anaheim. Measures 3" inches in diameter. Has wonderful Blaxploitation design with raised fist on red / green background. Rare.
FYI
The
1972 Watts Summer Festival (Wattstax)
was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. The concert's performers included all of Stax's prominent artists at the time including Isaac Hayes. Also in attendance were members of the Black Panther Party who used the event as an opportunity to organize members of the African American community. It was such an important defining moment in black cultural history that it would go on to become known as the Black Woodstock.
For other original black civil rights buttons and posters be certain to visit the Black Panther Party category of our ebay store.
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BLACK PANTHER PARTY
Circa 1966-1982
Oxxbridge Galleries was founded in 1987 and specializes in paper items with a particular emphasis on counter culture.
We are the only retailer in the country that regularly deals in original Black Panther Party items and are always adding to our inventory.
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