Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) LYNCHING. Mob Hangs Negro Slaying Suspect. Press Photograph 7-3/8 x 10-3/8 inches; with description at the foot of the image, part of the negative. Ruston, Louisiana, 1938
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The lynching of R.C. Williams, a murder suspect, in Ruston Louisiana, October 14, 1938. This particular image, an AP wire photo was taken by a press photographer and is not in James Allen's definitive work, 'Without Sanctuary' (Twin Palms, 2003).