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Lot 212
Sale 1344 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
May 31, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$1,000 -
1,500
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$1,143
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Lot Description
[CIVIL RIGHTS]. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963: Lincoln Memorial Program. [Washington, DC], 1963.
4pp, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. program (folds, some creasing, toning, occasional spotting).
A program issued to participants, the front page features the schedule of events including the National Anthem led by Marian Anderson, a Tribute to Negro Women Fighters for Freedom by Mrs. Medgar Evers, remarks by John Lewis, Whitney M. Young, Jr., and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The program's interior includes a "Statement by the heads of the ten organizations calling for discipline in connection with the Washington March" and a list of 10 demands. The last page features a map with a route of the march.
RARE, only five other copies have ever sold at auction, OCLC locates 4 copies.


