Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 9,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
SIGNED BY EMMIT TILL'S MOTHER (CIVIL RIGHTS.) WITHERS, ERNEST. Complete Photo Story of Till Murder Case. Copiously illustrated with Withers' own photographs. 20 pages. Original oblong pictorial cloth-backed wrappers; tiny chip from the top right edge of the front cover; some light wear. signed by emmett till's mother mamie e. bradley on the front cover. Memphis, 1955
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a rare little booklet, prepared and self-published by the noted black photographer and chronicler of the Civil Rights movement. Wither's images of the sanitation worker's strike in 1968, during which Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated are iconic.