(Atlanta Child Murders) In Tribute to those Brothers and Sisters of Atlanta Ga. Come Join This March Agains The Genocide of Black Children in America. 10 A.M. 4-5-81 Exposition Park
[Los Angeles]: Camp of the Lost and Found Sheep of the House of Israel, 1981.
Single 8.5" x 11" sheet printed on rectos only. Good only, very fragile, loss along edges, closed tears (the largest being from the top edge right side, creased, stained, tape on verso. An extremely scarce flyer promoting a protest by an obscure likely Black Israelite group (about which very little info could be found) in L.A.'s Exposition Park in response to a string of around 28 murders (possibly more) in the Atlanta, Georgia area from July 1979 to May 1981. They were collectively known as The Atlanta Child Murders even though some of the victims were adults. 23 year-old Black Atlanta native Wayne Williams would be publicly blamed for the murders, but not ever formally charged with any of them; he likely was responsible for some murders but quite likely not all. Many in the Black community of Atlanta had strong suspicions at the time that white supremacists might be responsible for the crimes with a few pieces of circumstantial evidence corroborating that idea. In March 2019 Atlanta's mayor had the local police reopen the case, although little has been publicly revealed since then. The Atlanta Child Murders proved to be a galvanizing moment for African Americans around the country but especially in Atlanta, where they informed the nascent hip-hop scene that would flower a little more than a decade later. They are little-documented in print and in pop culture, making this odd ephemeral item a rather remarkable survival.
Price: $800