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Oakland, California: Audrea Jones, campaign organizer, from the Boston Chapter of the party, speaks with Chairman Bobby Seale as he campaigns for mayor of Oakland. At right is Campaign Manager Herman Smith, later known as Sultan Ahmad. The voter registration drive, “Bobby Seale for Mayor and Elaine Brown for Oakland City Council,” helped Judge Lionel Wilson to become the first Black mayor of Oakland in 1977.
Stephen Shames (American, born in 1947)
1973
Medium/Technique
Photograph, archival pigment print
Dimensions
Height x width: 27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Lizbeth and George Krupp
Accession Number2023.974
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPhotographs
Provenance2022, sold by Steven Kasher Gallery, New York to Lizbeth and George Krupp, Chestnut Hill, MA; 2023, gift of Lizbeth and George Krupp to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)