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300 Years of Black History
[supplied title]. Sepia toned poster, made from a
photographic montage, 35 x 45
3
⁄
4
inches, some light wear and slight wrinkle along the
edges; faint signs of early tape repair to the blank margin running along the edges of the
piece.
Wil Lai Enterprises, Menlo Park, California, 1972
[800/1,200]
An unusually creative historical poster, including portraits and vignettes of virtually every important
figure in black history for the last few centuries. Everyone from Reverend Richard Allen of the Mother
Bethel A.M.E. Church to David Walker and his “Appeal”; with images of people one does not usu-
ally encounter on such historical posters. Long time Howard University librarian Dorothy Porter, for
example; or publisher T. Thomas Fortune, naval hero Dorie Miller, and Thurgood Marshal. The first
example of this we have seen.
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