Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 220

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Civil Rights Now! Peoples March for Freedom, Jobs, Justice, Equality. Felt pennant, 12 x 26 1/4 inches; light toning, minor wear to tip, otherwise minimal wear. Np, [1963]
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This pennant was produced for the 28 August 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his famed "I Have a Dream" speech. A photograph of demonstrators at the march owned by Getty Images (WashDC003) shows a woman waving another example of this pennant on a stick. On verso is the manufacturer's printing: "Freedom Pennant / St. Clair, Scott, Baldwin." It is unclear whether this represents a place, a manufacturer, or both, but St. Clair, Scott, and Baldwin are all Pennsylvania townships south of Pittsburgh. None in OCLC, none others traced at auction.