Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AFRICA.) Scrapbook recording the struggle to end Apartheid in South Africa. 14 original printed leaflets and pamphlets, with Xerox copies of contemporary clippings, sleeved in one volume with typescript notes explaining some items. South Africa, 1967-75 and undated

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Original leaflets from the early days of the African National Congress, such as "We Bring You a Message--the African National Congress Calls You to Action!", a double-sided flyer with the portrait of Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, printed on very thin paper in English, Bantu, Swahili, and Xhosa, [1967]. Other leaflets or pamphlets include: "Sons and Daughters of Africa," "Forward To Freedom, We Call the Coloured Community," "We Shall Win," "The African National Congress says to Vorster and His Gang, Your Days are Coming to an End!", and a booklet in comic book form called "The Story of Simon and Jane." The last item is a mimeographed newsletter called "VUKANI---AWAKE," published "For the Liberation of South Africa and all of Her Peoples," March 1975.