Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Large group of Mississippi civil rights press photographs from Freedom Summer and beyond. 35 wire photos, most about 8 x 10 inches, captioned in negative or on verso, with various inked stamps and captions; some with retouching or crop marks, condition generally strong. Mississippi, 1963-1968
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14 of the photographs are from Freedom Summer in Mississippi, 1964. They include 3 portraits of the missing civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner; 4 photographs of the search for their bodies (their burned car and dragging a lake); James Farmer with Schwerner's widow (illustrated); Farmer and Dick Gregory being escorted from a courthouse; and 5 other shots of Mississippi activists that summer.

Also included are 21 other shots from Mississippi's civil rights struggles in this era: a 1963 "sit-in school"; a church in Jackson being integrated in 1963; Charles Evers comforting the parents of a slain civil rights worker in 1965; James Meredith addressing the crowd at the end of his 1966 March Against Fear; a 1967 march in Natchez; and much more.