Mar 20, 2025 - Sale 2697

Sale 2697 - Lot 105

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Ticket to a St. Louis "Jazz-Art Festival" fundraiser for the CORE Freedom Riders. Printed ticket, 2¾ x 6¾ inches, including attached stub; faint crease in one corner. [St. Louis, MO], 16 July [1961]

Additional Details

This event was held at the rooftop garden of the Young Men's Hebrew Association. The $2.00 admission ticket was presented as a mock train ticket from St. Louis to Equality. The newspaper advertisement in that morning's St. Louis Post-Dispatch promised jazz music, modern art, folk singers Dave Sear and Pete Stanley, and espresso coffee.