Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 112

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Three photographs of Bayard Rustin while organizing the March on Washington. Wire photos, various sizes, captioned in the negative, various agency stamps and captions on verso; head shot with crop marks, otherwise minimal wear. New York, August 1963
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These three photographs show Rustin in his most famous role, as the architect of the 28 August 1963 March on Washington. An Associated Press photo dated 3 August shows him at a march press conference with A. Philip Randolph and the NAACP's John Morsell (7¼ x 10 inches). A smaller AP portrait shows Rustin outside the march headquarters on 7 August, explaining that "he is determined, if it is humanly possible, that no violence mar the big march" (6 x 4 inches). A United Press International photo from 13 August (illustrated) shows Rustin with seven of his march marshals; the caption notes that Senator Strom Thurmond had just exposed Rustin's past as a Communist and draft resister (7 x 9 inches).

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