Mar 30, 2023 - Sale 2631

Sale 2631 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 5,000
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Pennant from the March on Washington. Felt pennant, 11 x 28 inches, with stenciled lettering; minor wear, folds, light staining. Washington, 28 August 1963
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The lettering reads "March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom and Let the World Know We Want Freedom." It adds the date, and the quote "I Was There."

Calvin Trilling's 30 August 1963 New Yorker piece describes the hours before the culmination of the march: "On a baseball field on the Ellipse, three men were setting up a refreshment stand, and on the sidewalk nearby a man wearing an N.A.A.C.P. cap was arranging pennants that said March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Let the World Know We Want Freedom.'"