(BUSINESS) Pennant for Black Expo 71

Sale 2598 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 375

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(BUSINESS.) Pennant for "Black Expo 71." Felt pennant, 6 3/4 x 20 1/4 inches, printed in yellow on black, with logo of a fist clenching arrows tipped with dollar signs, reading "Toward Independence: Economic, Cultural, Political"; vertical fold, light wear. [Chicago?], 1971

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This Chicago exposition was organized by Operation Breadbasket, an arm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In a 26 September 1971 interview with the New York Daily News, co-organizer Percy Sutton (the Manhattan borough president) explained that "Black people have learned that they cannot move America only by praying, demonstrating, sitting-in, and in the courts. Therefore, they are now focusing their attention on economics and politics." According to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Operation Breadbasket, "Black and minority economic, cultural, and political awareness and independence is the overriding goal of Black Expo '71"--echoing the language on this pennant. None others traced at auction.