Item #5697 Black & Puerto Rican Control of Black & Puerto Rican Communities

Black & Puerto Rican Control of Black & Puerto Rican Communities

New York: Socialist Workers Party Campaign Committee, 1969. Offset on recto and verso. 8 1/2 x 11 in. Very good. Item #5697

"New York is going to hell! Kick out the bankers, businessmen and landlords who have been running the city."

Flyer for the various Socialist Workers Party candidates in the 1969 New York City elections, including Paul Boutelle for Mayor, Alfredo Pena for Comptroller, Derrick Morrison for Manhattan Borough President and Patricia Gogan for Manhattan Councilwoman-at-Large.

Boutelle, who later changed his name to Kwame Montsho Ajamu Somburu, was a key organizer and politician in the Socialist Workers Party and the short-lived Black liberation party, Freedom Now.

A rare document of Black socialism in New York City.

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