Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON. Typed Letter Signed to Dr. Parker of Pine Bluffs, Arkansas regarding the formation of an NAACP branch [with] the first page of another letter Parker. 4to's on NAACP letterhead; creases where folded, some general wear. With the original envelope. New York, 1918
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"I trust that those associated with you will make this a matter of first importance. There is no doubt but that in the next few months colored people of the United States will need the National Association more than over (sic) before, very truly yours, James Weldon Johnson." Johnson, 27 years old, was field secretary at this time.