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Lot 238

Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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[CIVIL RIGHTS]. Jet. 13 issues (incomplete run). Chicago, IL: Johnson Publishing Co., September 1964-May 1968.


13 issues, numbering: Vol. XXVI, No. 23, 10 Sept. 1964; Vol. XXVII, No. 17, 4 Feb. 1965; Vol. XXVII, No. 18, 11 Feb. 1965; Vol. XXVII, No. 25, 1 April 1965; Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, 22 April 1965; Vol. XXVIII, No. 3, 29 April 1965; Vol. XXVIII, No. 5, 13 May 1965; Vol. XXVIII, No. 9, 10 June 1965; Vol. XXX, No. 25, 29 Sept. 1966; Vol. XXXI, No. 14, 12 Jan. 1967; Vol. XXXIV, No. 3, 25 April 1968; Vol. XXXIV, No. 4, 2 May 1968. Vol. XXXIV, No. 6, 16 May 1968. (Occasional spotting, toning and soiling to wrappers, some with scribbled notations.)

With headlines including: "New Negro Power Structure in Washington;" "King's Freedom Drive in Alabama;" "What Happened to the Four Students who Started Sit-Ins Five Years Ago?;" "How LBJ's Voter Bill Can Change Alabama;" "Untold Story of Bomb Terror in Birmingham;" "Adam Powell: Key Man on Capitol Hill;" "Selma Today: Ten Weeks after the March;" "A Visit with the First Negro Ambassador;" "Negro Buying Boycott Shuts Down a Mississippi Town;" "King's Widow: Bereavement to Battlefield."

Founded in November 1951 by John H. Johnson (1918-2005), Jet magazine is considered one of the most influential African American media businesses and chronicled the Civil Rights Movement including early events like the lynching of Emmett Till.

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