Feb 26, 2004 - Sale 1998

Sale 1998 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(Reparations). To the United States of America . . . a Claim for Reparations and Money Damages. Large poster "extra" from the Los Angeles Herald Dispatch, 221/2x15 inches, on evenly toned newspaper stock; several pin-sized holes at the center. Los Angeles, 1962

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Placed in the newspaper by the Reparations Committee for United States Slave's Descendants, Inc. This represents one of the earliest organized efforts to address the issue of reparations for descendants of slaves. The issue remains alive to this day.