Mar 24, 2022 - Sale 2598

Sale 2598 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Register to Vote Today . . . I Can't Vote Because I am a Dog! What's Your Excuse? Handbill, 5 1/2 x 4 inches; minimal war. No place, circa 1968

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A clever NAACP voter registration appeal. If logic does not work, a cute dog is a good fallback.

The Oakland Post photo archive at the African American Museum & Library in Oakland holds a copy of the original photograph of the boy and dog, dated 1964. A placard with this image was displayed at a voter rights march in Amarillo, TX, as described by the Amarillo Globe-Times of 15 January 1968.