Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 225

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(ENTERTAINMENT--FILM.) Walter J. Leonard. A Tribute to Miss Cicely Tyson. Letterpress broadside, 13 x 14 1/4 inches, printed in red and black on handmade F.J. Head & Co. laid paper; very faint toning; uncut. Cambridge, MA, 17 April 1974
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Printed for "Cicely Tyson Day," when the actress was honored at the Harvard Faculty Club, particularly for her role as the formerly enslaved title character in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman." Tyson was only 49 when she played the 110-year-old Pittman. She was still acting and had just published her memoir when she passed earlier this year at the age of 96.

This tribute was penned by Walter Leonard (1929-2015), who had launched Harvard's affirmative action program and later served as president at Fisk: "As Jane Pittman, she moved the art of acting to new heights. . . . She has given much to us. In an age of defeat and retreat, neglect and oppression; she is a symbol of strength, an embodiment of beauty and evidence of sterling achievement." None others traced in OCLC, at auction, or elsewhere.