[CIVIL RIGHTS]. 1967 wire photo of Warlest Jackson, Natchez NAACP treasurer murdered by a car bomb.

Lot comprised of 4 wire/press photos, including:

5 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. wire photo of Warlest Jackson, former treasurer of Natchez, MS, NAACP. The image, dated 28 February 1967, includes a typed caption in lower margin noting that Jackson was killed when the pickup truck he was driving exploded "apparently from a bomb blast." He was driving home from the Armstrong Rubber Company, where he was employed as a rubber cutter. No one was ever charged for the murder.

A marker was installed in Natchez in Jackson's honor and a documentary was recently produced about the NAACP leader's unsolved murder entitled American Reckoning.

[With:] 3 press photos, 8 x 10 in., captioned in margin or on applied paper label, ink stamps on versos. Scenes include: Mississippi governor Paul Johnson shown answering questions at a Jackson, MS, press conference prior to J. Edgar Hoover's announcement (seated at right), appointing Roy K. Moore as chief FBI agent in Mississippi following the June 1964 disappearance of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. The three men were killed my members of the KKK in Philadelphia, MS, on 21 June 1964, and because of the efforts of Moore and his agents, 19 men were indicted and 7 were convicted. -- Mississippi governor Ross Barnett displaying a picture while testifying before a Senate Commerce Committee in opposition to proposed civil rights legislation on 12 July 1963. Barnett holds a picture showing Martin Luther King, Jr. at what the governor identified as a "communist training school." -- View of the parking area in an Atlanta Public Housing project where the FBI says it found a white mustang automobile sought in connection with the slaying of Martin Luther King, Jr, 12 April 1968.

Together, 4 wire/press photographs.

Property from a 35-Year Collection from the Southern United States

This lot is located in Cincinnati.