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KING, MARTIN LUTHER JR. We Shall Overcome. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. Pictorial paper portfolio with seven leaves, including the Introduction, contents leaf plus five collages by Louis Lo Monaco; outer edge of the delicate black wrappers with some small closed tears. * [with] A large pin-back button "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." New York: Urban League, 1963
a very good copy, of a fragile production, often found quite worn. "This collection of graphic collages has been created specifically as a memento for those who participated in the historic March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963. It depicts man's inhumanity, his cruelty to his fellow beings. (sic) This memento, we believe will inspire us to assert man's decency and goodness through an understanding of anguish" (from the Introduction) Signed in facsimile by the March organizers, and leaders including Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, Whitney M. Young Jr., and Josephus (that last living slave of antebellum America).rare. while a large number of these fragile productions were made up, precious few have survived intact. OCLC lists only four locations including the Library of Congress deposit copy.
