?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HONORING THE FOLKS IN THE BIG HOUSE (CIVIL RIGHTS--MISSISSIPPI--TENANT FARMERS.) Appreciation Ceremony. Sherard Plantation Negroes Gather to Honor Owners. April 30, 1950, Sherard, Mississippi. 39 full-page actual photographs, bound with 30 pages of Xerox copies of letters, newspaper articles etc. Large 4to, bound in full black morocco with the title in gilt on the upper cover. Sherard, Mississippi, 1950
one of an unspecified, but obviously limited number of copies bound up to celebrate the occasion of the colored population of Sherard Mississippi's celebration of the owner of their land, town and, to all practical purposes their homes and livelihood. The 6000 acre plantation was established in 1874 when, as an article in the March 8, 1967 Memphis Press-Scimitar stated, "the first John Holmes Sherard, then 18 years old, left the ante-bellum home of his parents in Alabama with six mule wagons, four ox wagons, 50 head of cattle and many colored families, who had 'belonged' to the Sherard family before the Civil War, to found his own Mississippi plantation." By 1950, the 6000 acre plantation included not only tenant homes, but several churches, a post office, general store, railroad station and a school. The main crop was cotton, but in 1890, when cotton prices bottomed out, Sherard planted a grove of pecans, which eventually grew into a money crop. Today, people from all over the country order Sherard's famous "sherardized" pecans.
