Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 2,880
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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) KING, MARTIN LUTHER. LO MONACO, LOUIS. We Shall Overcome. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. Pictorial paper portfolio with seven leaves, including the Introduction, contents leaf plus five collages by Lo Monaco. Signs of professional removal of two pieces of tape from the rear blank cover, otherwise the best copy of this rare portfolio we have seen offered. New York: National Urban League, 1963
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"This collection of graphic collages has been created specifically as a memento for those who participated in the historic March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963. It depicts man's inhumanity, his cruelty to his fellow beings [sic]. This memento, we believe, will inspire us to assert man's decency and goodness through an understanding of anguish" (from the Introduction). Signed in facsimile by the March organizers and leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, Whitney M. Young, Jr., and Josephus (the then last-living slave of antebellum America.) rare. while a large number of these fragile portfolios were made up, precious few seem to have survived. OCLC locates only 4 copies including the Library of Congress copy.