Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AFRICAN AMERICANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Group of 6 press photos from the Civil Rights movement. Period wire photos, various sizes and conditions, each about 8 x 10 inches; most retouched, most with captions on verso. Vp, 1956-68
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"Negroes Deliberately Violate Birmingham Bus Segregation Law," 26 December 1956 "Racial Segregation on Buses Ends," 24 April 1957 "Attack from Back . . . Little Rock Mob that Tried to Forestall Integration," 24 September 1957 "The Three Negro Boy Students of Little Rock Central High School," 2 October 1957 "Police Flank Stretcher Holding Body of Malcolm X," 21 February 1965 [Hosea Williams views the remains of Martin Luther King at funeral], 9 April 1968.