Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Press photo of Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier bailing James Forman, John Lewis, and others out of jail. Wire photo, 7 x 9 inches, with inked "Please return to Arts & Leisure" stamp and folding teletype caption label on verso with Poitier's name circled in ink; minimal wear. New York, 21 March 1966
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James Forman and John Lewis (4th and 5th from left), then the leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, had occupied the South African consulate in New York to protest apartheid, and had been arrested for disorderly conduct. Two celebrity supporters, Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier, are shown leaving night court with them after posting bond. To the far left are the fellow protesters William Hall, Cleveland Sellers, and Willie Ricks, who were also released with Forman and Lewis.