A collection of PDF scans of nearly every issue of The Black Panther Party Newspaper was posted to reddit in 2016. In January 2021 we downloaded all of the files to make it accessible here as well.
Each volume is a separate ZIP download containing up to 32 issues, for a total of 487 issues posted here (some issues are missing; detailed here by the Marxists Internet Archive, which also hosts copies of these files).
Each ZIP is large, ranging from a few hundred megabytes to almost 3GB. The quality of the scans varies from issue to issue; some are extremely high resolution, most are decent, and some are low quality. A watermark appears on many but not all of the issues. We’re not aware of who did the original scans, or how or where they were done.
Volume 1: 1967 (6 PDFs) [117MB]
Volume 2: 1968–1969 (26 PDFs) [730MB]
Volume 3: 1969 (32 PDFs) [1.54GB]
Volume 4: 1969–1970 (29 PDFs) [1.3GB]
Volume 5: 1970‐1971 (28 PDFs) [1.88GB]
Volume 6: 1971 (28 PDFs) [1.26GB]
Volume 7: 1971‐1972 (31 PDFs) [1.59GB]
Volume 8: 1972 (31 PDFs) [1.38GB]
Volume 9: 1972 (12 PDFs) [302MB]
Volume 10: 1973 (29 PDFs) [1.34GB]
Volume 11: 1974 (28 PDFs) [117MB1.88GB]
Volume 12: 1974‐1975 (29 PDFs) [1.69GB]
Volume 13: 1975 (32 PDFs) [1.29GB]
Volume 14: 1975‐1976 (30 PDFs) [2.21GB]
Volume 15: 1976 (31 PDFs) [2.94GB]
Volume 16: 1977 (21 PDFs) [1.55GB]
Volume 17: 1977 (29 PDFs) [2.47GB]
Volume 18: 1978‐1979 (14 PDFs) [1.31GB]
Volume 19: 1979 (9 PDFs) [445MB]
Volume 20: 1980 (10 PDFs) [135MB]
More information about Emory Douglas and the design of The Black Panther at this excellent post, by the Letterform Archive, including hi-res images from their collection.
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