Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Lo Monaco, Louis. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963: We Shall Overcome. Pictorial paper portfolio, 11 x 9 1/4 inches, with seven leaves: introduction leaf, contents leaf, and five collage prints by Lo Monaco; minor wear to the portfolio, faint offsetting and light fold to the two text leaves. New York: Urban League, [1963]

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From the introduction: "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 human being. This memento, we believe, will inspire us to assert man's decency and goodness through an understanding of anguish." The introduction is signed in facsimile by the march leaders including Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney M. Young Jr. with--the original 4-page program for the conclusion of the march at the Lincoln Memorial.