Mar 16, 2017 - Sale 2439

Sale 2439 - Lot 381

Price Realized: $ 3,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
MILTON GLASER (1929- ) NO VIETNAMESE EVER CALLED ME NIGGER. 1968.
35 1/4x23 3/4 inches, 89 1/2x60 1/4 cm.
Condition B+: tears, creases and abrasions along sharp vertical and horizontal folds; creases at edges and in image. Paper.
A striking poster created to promote David Loeb Weiss' film "No Vietnamese Ever Call Me Nigger," which won the award for "Best Documentary" at the Mannheim Film Festival in 1968. The title refers to a quote often misattributed to Muhammad Ali. It was a popular rallying cry during anti-Vietnam War demonstrations at the time, and can be seen in the film on the placards carried by protesters in the 1967 Harlem Fall Mobilization March. This event was the racially and politically-charged focus of the documentary, comprised of footage of the march itself interspersed with interviews from protesters and Black Vietnam veterans. The result was a shockingly frank, firsthand report which a review in Open City called "the strongest statement yet from the Black community . . . a startling cry of rage and despair . . . As a study on why there is rebellion in the streets of Black America it is more succinct and illuminating than any government report can ever be."