Black Mask #1 1966

masthead plus text of manifesto issued during their protest against MOMA

Debut issue of the journal of the New York "situationist street gang" Black Mask, published November 1966. Includes a write up of their action against the Museum of Modern Art and reprints of an Albert Camus interview and a manifesto of the Lowndes County Freedom Organisation.

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