Prison issue baseball cap with black panther drawing worn by Herman Wallace
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Prison issue baseball cap with black panther drawing worn by Herman Wallace

Nissin Caps & Bags, American, founded 1995 · after 1972

cotton (textile) and plastic with ink
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

The hand-drawn black panther on this prison-issue cap is a marker of Wallace's identity as a Black Panther Party member and an open show of his solidarity and continued fight against racial injustice within the prison system.

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