Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) It Must Not Happen Here! Stop Lynch Justice! Handbill, 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches; a bit of wear in upper left corner, two light red pencil marks in text area. Roxbury, MA, 30 October [1949]

Additional Details

Advertises a "Defend Democracy Meeting" near Boston featuring Communist Party leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, local white school board candidate Otis Hood, and "National Negro Leader" Pettis Perry, another prominent Communist. The text opposes unfair treatment of Communists and African-Americans in the courts, and features a quote from Paul Robeson. None traced in OCLC.