Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) SNCC fundraising circular letter featuring the classic portrait of John Lewis, with his signature. 2 pages, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, on one sheet, with two facsimile signatures of letter author Nathan Schwerner; folds; signed in blue marker by Congressman John Lewis just below photograph. Np, circa June 1965
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This SNCC fundraising appeal was issued a year after the June 1964 Klan executions of 3 activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi. It was written by Nathan Schwerner, father of one of the executed youths, insisting that his son might still be alive if SNCC had the funding for better communications and transportation. The circular is illustrated with the Danny Lyon photograph of 22-year-old John Lewis and other protesters kneeling in prayer at a segregated swimming pool in Cairo, IL in July 1962, as also seen in the poster "Come Let Us Build a New World Together."

The circular was signed for the consignor by Congressman Lewis at a Martin Luther King commemoration in Kenosha, WI on 26 January 2013. A copy of the event program is included with the lot, as well as a color copy of another dated Lewis inscription done at the same event.