Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 108

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Join Hands for Equality Now . . . Join CORE. Poster, 21¾ x 14 inches, in red and black; tack holes in corners, horizontal fold, 2-inch crease in upper left corner. New York, circa 1963

Additional Details

The image is from a 1963 voter registration event in St. Francisville, LA; CORE activist Mimi Feingold is at left. The photograph was taken by well-known civil rights photographer Bob Adelman, although it is uncredited.

Provenance: Mary Kouzmanoff Freelon (1919-1982), widow of Harlem Renaissance artist Allan Freelon (1895-1960). She participated in the July 1961 CORE Freedom Ride from Nashville to Jackson, MS. Acquired by the consignor at her estate sale at House in the Woods Auction Gallery in Eagle, WI, 1997.