KING MARTIN LUTHER JR I AM A MAN

Sale 2171 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 1,920

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000

KING, MARTIN LUTHER JR. I AM A MAN. Poster, 28x22 inches, printed in red on a white field; horizontal line of discoloration crossing at approximately one third from the bottom.

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A rare poster, printed a couple of months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. King was killed after he traveled there to lend a hand to the striking sanitation workers. The strikers carried two types of posters that week. One read "HONOR KING. END RACISM," and the other read "I AM A MAN." Today, both are nearly impossible to find. Swann sold the first I AM A MAN poster ever offered at auction in 1997.