[Statement by Comrade Mao, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression. April 16, 1968]

[China], 1968. About very good.. [2]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Printed in blue. Central fold, light chipping and wear. Mao's statement argues that "Martin Luther King was an exponent of nonviolence. Nevertheless, the U.S. imperialists did not on that account show any tolerance toward him, but used counter-revolutionary violence and killed him in cold blood. This has taught the broad masses of the Black people in the United States a profound lesson." After it was disseminated, the statement was reprinted all over the country in various version s such as this one, mimeographed by the Propaganda Group of the 14th Regiment of the Shiyunsi Revolutionary Alliance Headquarters. After it was published in English it went on to encourage the Black Panther Party and others in the U.S. who saw that there was a major country supporting their struggle.