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

211 c   (GREGORY, DICK.) “Humani- tarian Award” medal issued to Gregory by the Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America. Cast metal, 3 inches in diameter, with blue and yellow ribbon attached. In original wooden box, 9 x 5 x 2 1 / 2 inches, with custom plaque engraved for Gregory. [Philadelphia?], April 1978 [300/400] The Opportunities Industrialization Center was a vocational program with roots in the civil rights movement, founded in Philadelphia in 1964 and still active today. 212 c   GREGORY, DICK. “Some Quotes of Dick Gregory” signed quotation. Typed Quotation Signed “To you from me, Dick Gregory,” 11 x 8 1 / 2 inches, mounted to backing board with two reproduction photographs of Gregory; not examined out of frame. Np, undated [400/600] 211 212 Gregory has signed four representative quotes, including “I never believed in Santa Claus because I know no white dude would ever come into my neighborhood after dark” and “Some people have a wonderful way of looking at things. Like the ones who hire one of us to babysit—so they can go to a Ku Klux Klan meeting.”