Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 256

Price Realized: $ 12,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
RARE GROUP PHOTOGRAPH (CIVIL RIGHTS.)--SCOTTSBORO BOYS. Group photograph of the Scottsboro Boys with attorneys Juanita E. Jackson of the National NAACP and Laura Kellum of the Birmingham NAACP. Silver print 7-1/2 x 9-3/8 inches; dry-mounted to a piece of thin cardboard. Alabama, circa January, 1937
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A group photograph of the nine Scottsboro Boys with their attorneys Juanita E. Jackson, and Laura Kellum, sent by the NAACP to assure the boys that they would not be abandoned. Jackson was the first African-American woman to pass the bar in the state of Maryland. This photo was taken by a Crisis Magazine photographer and appeared in the pages of the January 1937 issue.