Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 523

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(WOMEN'S STUDIES.) HANDY, RUTH AVERY. Broken run of Responsibility, the official organ of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women. October 30 1943 (Volume 1, number 1), Spring 1945, Summer, 1946, Mid-Summer 1946, Fall 1946, Winter 1946; Spring 1947, Fall 1948, Spring 1949, Fall 1951, Spring 1953, Fall 1954, 1956 convention issue, Fall 1957, Late Spring 1958, Spring 1962, 1964 post-convention issue, 1965 pre-convention issue, 1965 post-convention issue, 1970 "Thirty-Five Years of Leadership and Service Issue." [WITH] approximately a dozen pieces of related ephemera. condition varies, should be seen. 1943-1970

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A broken run of this important publication of the Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Supported by Eleanor Roosevelt. A letter to Ruth Handy appears on the inside of the first issue cover. Articles on the state of the race from Wartime in 1943 to forty years later, through the Civil Rights Movement and the post Civil Rights Act years. Excellent reference.