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Lot 269

Sale 2070 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana
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Feb 14, 2025
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Feb 27, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$400 - 600

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[JIM CROW VIOLENCE]. Le Petite Parisien- Supplement Illustre. Paris, France. 20 October 1901.


8pp, 12 x 17 in. Illustrated color Sunday newspaper supplement containing a dramatic full page color engraving of the lynching of 9 African Americans in the Southern United States. Six men are shown as already having been lynched while 3 terrified men are shown being roughly led by a white mob to their deaths. Caption below the illustration reads: "Aux États-unis / La foule lynchant des nègres accusés d'assassinat sur une femme blanche" (In the United States / The mob lynching blacks accused of murdering a white woman."

An international perspective of the lynching of African Americans by white Southerners during the era of Jim Crow racial segregation.

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