Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of 5 leaflets from civil rights protests in Oregon and Washington. 5 items, 11 x 8 1/2 inches except as noted; folds, minor wear. Vp, circa 1963-65
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Leaflet protesting Portland, OR department store chains with segregated lunch counters in the South: "Help Fight Bigotry! Don't Patronize Sears, Woolworth, Kress, W.T. Grant." Issued by the Portland Committee on Racial Equality, circa 1963.

Smaller leaflet (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) with similar content: "Don't Support Segregation," issued by the N.A.A.C.P. Portland Branch. Two copies, on white and red paper.

Leaflet protesting a speech by Alabama Governor George Wallace by the Eugene (OR) Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality: "Donate to Voter Registration in the South." [13 January 1964].

Leaflet from Washington State University: "WSU is sending representatives to Selma. They will participate in the march to Montgomery and will send back first-hand information." Signed in type by Glenn Howze of the Combined Committee for Selma. [Pullman, WA], March 1965.