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

165 166 166 c   (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Give Canned Food and Supplies. Poster, 22 1 / 2 x 17 1 / 2 inches; 2 holes punched in lower margin, unrelated pencil drawing on verso, minor wear. [Los Angeles, CA]: Food for Freedom Committee, [1963] [400/600] “The jobs of Negroes in Mississippi and Alabama are in danger because they registered to vote. Give what you can to help them hold out in their fight against discrimination!” The committee’s honorary chairman was Councilman Tom Bradley, later the first African-American mayor of Los Angeles. No other copies traced at auction or on OCLC. 165 c   (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of 35 press photographs of civil rights demonstrations and related subjects. Most 8 x 10 inches, a few smaller; many with Associated Press inked stamps on verso, most with other newspaper notes or inked stamps. Vp, 1962-68 [700/1,000] Highlights include Malcolm X addressing a large rally in Harlem, 29 June 1963 * Marchers at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on the anniversary of King’s assassination, 4 April 1969 * andTommie Smith and John Carlos giving their famous Black Power salutes at the Mexico Olympics, 17 October 1968. Lowlights include two shots of segregationist restauranteur Lester Maddox, and a Georgia KKK induction from 1965. Many of the images are from various protests in Mississippi.