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KING, MARTIN LUTHER
JR.
We Shall Overcome. March on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
August 28, 1963.
Pictorial paper port-
folio with seven leaves, including the
Introduction, contents leaf plus five col-
lages by Louis Lo Monaco; outer edge of
the delicate black wrappers with some small
closed tears. * [with] A large pin-back button
“March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.”
New York: Urban League, 1963
[4,000/6,000]
A VERY GOOD COPY
,
OF A FRAGILE PRODUCTION
,
OFTEN FOUND QUITE WORN
.
“This collection
of graphic collages has been created specifically as a memento for those who participated in the historic
March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963. It depicts man’s inhumanity, his
cruelty to his fellow beings. (sic) This memento, we believe will inspire us to assert man’s decency and
goodness through an understanding of anguish” (from the Introduction) Signed in facsimile by the
March organizers, and leaders including Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer,
Whitney M. Young Jr., and Josephus (that last living slave of antebellum America).
RARE
.
WHILE A
LARGE NUMBER OF THESE FRAGILE PRODUCTIONS WERE MADE UP
,
PRECIOUS FEW HAVE
SURVIVED INTACT
.
OCLC lists only four locations including the Library of Congress deposit copy.