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

167 c   (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Lo Monaco, Louis. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963:We Shall Overcome. Pictorial paper portfolio, 11 x 9 1 / 4 inches, with seven leaves: introduction leaf, contents leaf, and five collage prints by Lo Monaco; minor wear to the portfolio, the contents fresh and clean. New York: Urban League, 1963 [2,000/3,000] From the introduction: “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 human being. This memento, we believe, will inspire us to assert man’s decency and goodness through an understanding of anguish.” The introduction is signed in facsimile by the march leaders including Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, and Whitney M. Young Jr. Offered with a large-format printing of the portfolio’s cover image: chromolithographic poster, 18 x 14 1 / 4 inches, dry-mounted to a piece of black artist’s board.