Feb 26, 2004 - Sale 1998

Sale 1998 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 632
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PERIODICAL.) The Afro-American Courier. Volume 1, Numbers 1-3. Small 4to, self-wrappers, few small closed tears at edges. Yazoo City, MS, 1926

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The motto of the paper was "Let down your buckets where you are . . ." This is a misquote from Booker T. Washington's famous Atlanta Compromise speech of 1895 where he told his listeners to "cast down your buckets." OCLC finds no holdings that include the first three issues.