Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 444

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SPORTS--WRESTLING.) Promotional photographs of 3 leading Black women on the professional wrestling circuit. Photographs, each about 10 x 8 inches; minimal wear. No place, circa 1960s

Additional Details

"Ethel Johnson, Girl Wrestler" (Ethel Wingo Hairston, 1935-2018), the first Black woman to be crowned champion, inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021.

"Sweet Georgia Brown, Girl Wrestler--Columbia, South Carolina" (Susie Mae McCoy, 1938-1989), who won the Texas title in 1963.

"Louise Greene, Girl Wrestler," who was active in wrestling from 1951 onward, and faced Ethel Johnson for the championship in 1952.