Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -
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Sale 2697 - Lot 117

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of 6 press photos of John Lewis. Each about 8 x 10 inches; 2 photographs with teletype caption labels, the others being wire photos captioned in the negative; various inked agency and newspaper stamps and manuscript subject headings on verso, minimal wear. Various places, [1963]-1965
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The earliest of these photographs is an original print showing Lewis at a planning session for the 1963 March on Washington, posed around a dinner table with Whitney Young, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, James Farmer, and Roy Wilkins. From 1964, one shows Lewis being knocked backwards by a white patron during a Nashville lunch counter sit-in; in another, he is at a press conference requesting federal protection for Freedom Summer volunteers. Three show Lewis marching and getting his skull cracked at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in March 1965.

With--a group shot of 4 civil rights leaders at a 1969 meeting (Roy Wilkins, Mesia Hewitt, Ralph Abernathy, and Roy Ennis).

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