Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 98

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Conference packet on "American Democracy and the Welfare of Negroes" featuring Mary McLeod Bethune. 3 mimeographed pages, 11 x 8½ inches, stapled in one corner; horizontal fold, last leaf mounted to part of a scrapbook leaf. [New York], 4 August [1942]

Additional Details

This event was sponsored by the Interracial Student Group at Columbia University. The first page gives the speaking program, including Mary McLeod Bethune and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The other two pages have poems by Langston Hughes, a short suggested reading list, and the words to "Lift Every Voice and Sing." None traced in OCLC or at auction.