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

213 c   (GREGORY, DICK.) Vote for President Dick Gregory. Poster, 29 x 22 inches; 2 short closed tears, manuscript notes on verso, otherwise minimal wear. Np, [1968] [400/600] From Gregory’s 1968 campaign as a candidate for the Freedom and Peace Party. He had lost the Peace and Freedom Party nomination to Eldridge Cleaver, and continued his campaign as a protest candidate. His running mate was Mark Lane, best known as an author on the Kennedy assassination.They did not quite catch Richard Nixon. No other copies of this poster have been traced on OCLC or at auction.