Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 220

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CIVIL RIGHTS--KING, MARTIN LUTHER JR.) Montgomery Improvement Association "Appearing in Concert Mrs. Coretta Scott King, National Famous Soprano" * "The Usher Boards and the Young Matrons Council Present Coretta Scott King, in Recital." [Two Items] Photographic black and white poster 14 x 11 inches, with a portrait of Mrs. King in the top center; short, closed tear at the top edge, [together with] an elaborate recital program with a large section of local African American advertiser/ supporters of the Montgomery Improvement Association. 12 pages, 4to, self-wrappers; front cover detached. Montgomery, 1958; 1956

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two scarce survivals from the montgomery improvement association. These recitals were fund-raisers for the MIA, and an important part of the local support and genesis of the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery.