Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) An Appeal to You . . . to March on Washington. Printed handbill, 11 x 8½ inches, on blue-green paper; minor foxing and light staining on right edge. [Philadelphia]: Congress of Racial Equality, 28 August 1963

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A call for Philadelphians to join the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, framed as an appeal from James Farmer, Martin Luther King, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. It lays out the demands of the marchers and concludes with instructions for ordering round-trip bus or train tickets. A nearly identical version was issued from New York on peach-colored paper.