Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

151 151 c   (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of press photographs and ephemera relating to the Scottsboro Boys. Various sizes; condition strong except as noted. Vp, 1933-36 and 1950 [600/900] The six press photographs, each about 8 x 7 inches, include: Haywood Patterson at trial, 3 April 1933 * “Violence Threatens Scottsboro Negroes,” 6 April 1933 * Ruby Bates, one of the accusers, 3 May 1933 * Victoria Price, one of the accusers, with another witness, 1 December 1933 * “Guilty; Must Die: Haywood Patterson” ( 1 / 2 -inch chip in image), 2 April 1935 * Lester Carter, one of the witnesses (slight water damage), 23 January 1936. They have a variety of captions, stickers, and inked stamps on verso. Olso included are “Scottsboro: The Shame of America.” 30-page pamphlet. New York, 1936 * “Save Our Lives, They Must Not Burn Dec. 7, Join the Fight to Free Them!” 4-page flyer, 8 1 / 2 x 5 1 / 2 inches; quite worn on lower edge. New York, [November 1934] * Full-page advertisement for Haywood Patterson’s book “Scottsboro Boy,” clipped from a newspaper’s book review section, 13 1 / 4 x 10 1 / 4 inches, 4 June 1950. 152 c   (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Press photo of prisoner Heywood Patterson, one of the Scottsboro Boys, talking with the sheriff. Photograph, 9 x 7 inches;minor wear, inked Acme Newspictures stamp and mimeograph caption on verso. Decatur,AL, 4 April 1933 [400/600] 153 c   (CIVIL RIGHTS.) 7 monthly issues of The Negro Worker. Each 8 pages including printed wrappers. 8vo, illustrated color wrappers; minor wear. Tuskegee Institute,AL: Booker T.Washington Leadership Association, 1945-46 [300/400] A relentlessly positive uplift publication “circulated by Negroes to serve the better interest of Negro workers” from 1944 to 1947, when it became “The BetterWorker.” Included here are March, June, and December, 1945 and January, February, May and July 1946. Only three institutions report any holdings in OCLC. Not in Loma- zow’s American Periodicals. with —The Negro History Bulletin,Volume I (1938), partly in facsimile, bound in buckram and Hildebrand. Chief, the Story of Asa Philip Randolph.Washington, circa 1964. 152