Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 220

Price Realized: $ 632
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(LYNCHING.) "Happy Days Are Here Again." Political broadside for the Republican Party, issued for the Presidential campaign, 10 3/4x8 inches, paper very lightly toned, creases where folded. Florida, 1936

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Text of the broadside urges votes for Governor Landon, saying that in the Democratically controlled state of Florida lynchings were taking place. It further states that President Roosevelt would do nothing about lynching because the South was in the Democrat camp. Landon promises to put an end to lynching. The broadside pictures the lynching of Rubin Stacy in Fort Lauderdale in 1935.<