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

178 c   (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of 37 press photographs of Resurrection City. Most 8 x 10 inches, a few smaller; most captioned in image, most blank on verso, a few with inked United Press International stamps, a few with mimeographed captions attached, minor wear and light curling. Washington, DC, May-June 1968 [500/750] In the month after the King assassination, the Poor People’s Campaign set up a tent city on theWashington mall called Resurrection City, hoping to draw national attention to the related issues of poverty and prejudice. Among the organizers, speakers, and visitors shown in these photographs are Vice President Hubert Hum- phrey, Ralph Abernathy, Coretta Scott King, and Resurrection City’s young leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. 178 179 c   (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of 4 posters. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1967-70 [400/600] The Evil System of Colonialism . . . will Surely Come to its End with the Complete Emancipa- tion of the Black People. 42 x 30 1 / 2 inches, some wrinkling to the lower right hand corner. Chinese poster featuring quotation by Mao Tse-Tung. Bei- jing, circa 1970 * Malcolm X. 42 x 29 inches. New York, Personality Posters, 1967 * Huey’s Message to the Revolutionary People’s Consti- tutional Convention Plenary Session. Folding illustrated poster / leaflet on newsprint, 18 1 / 2 x 22 1 / 2 inches. Philadelphia, 5 September 1970 * Six More Brothers Killed in Augusta Georgia. Rally May 14, 4 PM Commonwealth Armory. Black and white serigraph poster, 28 1 / 2 x 21 3 / 4 inches. Boston, 1970. 180 c   (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Hands that pick cotton . . . now can pick our public officials. Register and vote! Sepia-toned poster by Kofi Bailey, 19 x 12 1 / 2 inches, on stiff paper stock; minor wrinkling. Atlanta: Voter Education Project, 1970 [200/300] 180