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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) MISSISSIPPI.
Welcome to Mississippi. Mob Violence
(original artwork). Black ink, with white paint touches; poster 14
1
/
2
x 12 inches on artist’s
board; mounted on a black matte.
Np: “The Blade,” 1959
[600/800]
Original design for a poster, showing a highway sign reading “Welcome to Mississippi,” with a muddy
footprint titled “Mob Violence.” The matte bears a title “When the People Beat Their Feet. The
Blade, 5-1-59.”Mississippi was the scene of a great deal of the violence against civil rights workers.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) PHOTOGRAPHY.
Group of 7 gelatin silver prints from
the Black Star Agency.
Average 8 x 10 inches, with agency stamps as well as those of
the photographer on the reverse.
CONDITION GENERALLY VERY GOOD
,
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Vp, circa 1950’s to 1960’s
[400/600]
Images include: Martin Luther King being arrested at a lunch counter in Montgomery, 1958; Coretta
Scott King and Rosa Parks; Medgar Evers’ funeral; King accepting the presidency of the Montgomery
Improvement Association; Julian Bond with Stokely Carmichael; and Martin Luther King at the
Nobel Ceremony. Black Star photographers include: Charles Moore, Bob Fitch, Vernon Merritt III,
and Flip Schulke.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS—KING, MARTIN LUTHER JR.) Montgomery Improvement
Association
“Appearing in Concert Mrs. Coretta Scott King, National Famous
Soprano” * “The Usher Boards and the Young Matrons Council Present Coretta
Scott King, in Recital.”
[Two Items] Photographic black and white poster 14 x 11
inches, with a portrait of Mrs. King in the top center; short, closed tear at the top edge,
[together with] an elaborate recital program with a large section of local African American
advertiser/ supporters of the Montgomery Improvement Association. 12 pages, 4to, self-
wrappers; front cover detached.
Montgomery, 1958; 1956
[500/750]
TWO SCARCE SURVIVALS FROM THE MONTGOMERY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
.
These
recitals were fund-raisers for the MIA, and an important part of the local support and genesis of the
Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery.