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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) ROOSEVELT, COLONEL THEODORE.
”The Negro
Question. Attitude of the Progressive Party toward the Colored Race, Chicago,
August 6, 1912” [and] “Know the Truth! Statement of the Entire Colored
Delegation of the National Progressive Convention, Chicago, August 7, 1912.”
Two Pamphlets, 15 pages and 4 pages respectively; 8vo, self-wrappers; some toning and
light wear to the first item.
Chicago, 1912
[500/750]
Two key pamphlets from the contentious 1912 Convention of Roosevelt’s newly formed
Progressive Party. The “Attitude” of the Progressive Party vis-à-vis the Colored Race was sig-
nificant as regards the Convention’s makeup. None of the black Republican delegates from the
South were invited to attend, as Roosevelt felt they were corrupt and ineffectual. But - for the
first time in history, black delegates from the rest of the country were invited. In spite of their
support and that of feminist Jane Addams, Roosevelt’s bid for what would have been a third
term failed.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) SOVIET UNION.
[Don’t Put out the (Dawn) Flame of
Freedom.]
Soviet Anti-discrimination poster, 39 x 27 inches; some expert archival repair;
linen backed.
Moscow, 1968
[800/1,200]
The Soviet Union produced a number of truly powerful anti-American and Anti-Viet Nam
war posters through the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) SOVIET UNION.
[Disgrace of America.]
Soviet Anti-dis-
crimination poster, 35 x 22
1
⁄
2
inches; some expert archival repair; linen backed.
Moscow, 1967
[800/1,200]
Another in a series of powerful poster attacks on what the Soviets perceived as American
hypocrisy. These posters came at the juncture of the ramping up of American involvement in
Viet Nam and the Civil Rights movement.
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