Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 330

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(POLITICS.) Set of "NAACP--Vote, Be Heard" posters. 4 posters, 29 x 23 inches, printed in red, two with black printed designs at center and two with photocopied text; each with two holes punched in upper margin for hanging, some with minor foxing or wear. Np, circa 1988?

Additional Details

The additional messages at center feature a quote and portrait of Martin Luther King; portraits of King and NAACP director Benjamin Hooks and captioned "Dr. Benjamin Hooks reminds us that people died for our right to vote"; a photocopied "Invest in her future" flyer; and a photocopied flyer which begins "You want better schools? Vote for them!" "Vote--Be Heard" was a slogan promoted by the NAACP across the country from March to May 1988, an interesting moment in Black political history when Jesse Jackson was winning several Democratic primaries and finishing a strong second to Mike Dukakis in the race for the presidential nomination. With--a similar poster, "Invest in Her Future . . . Register and Vote," 23 x 17 1/2 inches, apparently from the same campaign, with string through its punch holes. Baltimore, MD: Voter Education Department, [1988?]