Feb 28, 2005 - Sale 2034

Sale 2034 - Lot 164

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) I Am A Man. Poster, with red lettering on gray paper; 273/4x22 inches; a few pinholes and several small closed tears in the margins. San Francisco: Emerson Graphics, 1968

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Printed in 1968 following the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. These posters were designed after the posters carried in the Memphis sanitation workers' strike. Dr. King had come to Memphis to support the sanitation workers. He was assassinated that week.