Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 116

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of 3 items from the March on Washington including Lo Monaco portfolio, pinback, and program. Various sizes, condition as listed below. Various places, August 1963
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"March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom, August 28, 1963." Pinback button, 3½ inches across; minimal wear.

"March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom . . . Lincoln Memorial Program." 4 pages, 8½ x 5½ inches, on one folding sheet; worn, folds, light soiling, circular dampstain, several pin holes likely inflicted by the pinback button above. Begins with an 18-point program of events, starting with a rendition of the National Anthem by Marian Anderson, remarks by Dr. King and more. In the center is a long joint statement on the purpose of the march signed in type by its 10 leaders, followed by a 10-point list of demands. On the final page is a map of the short final march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. [New York], 28 August 1963.

Louis Lo Monaco. "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963: We Shall Overcome." Pictorial paper portfolio, 11 x 9¼ inches, with seven leaves: introduction leaf, contents leaf, and five collage prints by Lo Monaco; minor edge wear to portfolio. From the introduction: "This collection of graphic collages has been created specifically as a memento for those who participated in the historic March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963. It depicts man's inhumanity, his cruelty to his fellow human being. This memento, we believe, will inspire us to assert man's decency and goodness through an understanding of anguish." The introduction is signed in facsimile by the march leaders including Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, and Whitney M. Young Jr. New York: Urban League, 1963.

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