Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -
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Sale 2697 - Lot 146

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Wide-ranging collection of Rosa Parks memorabilia from her personal attorney. 9 items (including a binder with 60+ items); various sizes, minimal to minor wear. Various places, bulk 1995-2013
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Rosa Parks street sign, 10 x 42 inches, on 8¾ x 24-inch metal bracket; minor wear. Detroit's 12th Street was renamed Rosa Parks Boulevard in 1976.

Binder of Parks memorabilia compiled after her 2005 death, containing approximately 60 items. Includes 3 pinback buttons; a press kit from the Rosa Parks Institute; photographs; event programs and press releases, 1995-2001; a 1997 letter regarding translation of "Dear Mrs. Parks"; a 1999 letter of invitation from Speaker Dennis Hastert to the Parks Gold Medal celebration, 8 June 1999; 16-page illustrated invitation to a garden party held by artist Faith Ringgold, signed and dated by Ringgold and inscribed to Park, 1 June 2000; her 2005 funeral program; and copy of a letter from the Obamas to compiler Gregory Reed, 2013.

5 photographs of Parks, her Madame Tussaud wax figure, and the artist, matted together.

Contact sheets of 180 color photographs of Parks and friends on 5 uncut sheets, 16 x 19¾ inches, circa 2000.

FRAMED PIECES: "State of Michigan Special Tribute" issued to Parks by the state legislature and signed by State Senator Jackie Vaughn III, 16½ x 10½ inches to sight, 16 February 1995.

Letter from Hillary Clinton to Rosa Parks on White House stationery, signed by autopen, 13 May 1997. "I recently learned that you had sent me a signed copy of Quiet Strength. Your thoughtfulness means a great deal to me." Framed with a photograph of Clinton with Parks.

Display of 7 items relating to the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony honoring Parks, 15 June 1999, including program, invitations, ticket, two photographs, and [bronze?] medal.

Two examples of the Rosa Parks seal, "Commemorative Gift to Congress from Rosa Parks" (seals #2 and #3), framed with copies of the original sketches by Detroit artist Halima Cassells, 15 June 1999.

Untitled and uncredited digital portrait print of Parks mounted on board, 19 x 15 inches.

Provenance: Collection of attorney Gregory J. Reed, who is credited as the co-author of Parks's 1994 memoir "Quiet Strength"; unsold in various lots at his well-publicized auction at Guernsey's, 25 July 2018; purchased by the consignor at Reed's bankruptcy auction, 19 November 2019.

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