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Lot 182
Sale 1344 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
May 31, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$826
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Lot Description
[AFRICAN AMERICANA - VIETNAM]. Free Thousands Jailed in Black Communities. Free Draft Resisters, War Resisters. Stop the Madness Now! New York, NY: Fifth Ave. Peace Parade Committee, 1968.
28 x 22 in. poster on cardstock (toning, soiling, some chipping and wear to edges). The poster was originally produced for an anti-Vietnam War rally sponsored by the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee to be held in New York City on 27 April 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was expected to speak at the rally, was assassinated in Memphis, TN, on 4 April 1968, and his wife Coretta Scott King read the speech in his place.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.