Lot 211
[CIVIL RIGHTS]. A group of 12 press photographs of African American and white politicians and civil rights activists. Ca 1958-1970.
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$250 - 350
Price Realized
$158
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Lot Description
[CIVIL RIGHTS]. A group of 12 press photographs of African American and white politicians and civil rights activists. Ca 1958-1970.

Silver gelatin photographs featuring subjects including Coretta Scott King, Leon Panetta, Shirley Chisholm, Howard Jenkins, Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Senator George McGovern, Governor George Wallace, Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, and others, including a white Georgia college student who was shot in the arm in an attack on the integrated house in which he lived. Each approx. 8 x 10 in., except for 12 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. press conference photograph featuring Mervyn Dymally, Douglas Ferrell, Dr. Daniel A. Collins, and Bily G. Mills. Most with printed captions and handstamps for Associated Press or Detroit Free Press. Conditions generally fair, with some toning to edges. 

Captions include: "Mrs. Shirley Chisholm gives the V for Victory sign in her Brooklyn, New York, headquarters early Wednesday morning, after learning she has been elected teh first NEgro woman ever to sit in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mrs. Chisholm, a Democrat, defeater her Republican opponent, James Farmer." -- "Jimmy Walker, a marcher in the March on Washington demonstrations from Portland, Ore., right, talks to Roy Wilkins, NAACP, leader, as they stand in front of the Lincoln statue at the Lincoln Memorial today." -- "Leon Panetta, former director of the Office of Civil Rights of HEW, spoke to a general session of the 61st national convention of the NAACP here Wednesday. 'When a group of concerned black mothers and children went to the office of Attorney General John Mitchell,' Panetta said, 'they were told: 'Watch not what we say, but what we do.'' In his address, Panetta said a few days later, the Administration had done away with desegregation deadlines." -- and others. 
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Property from a 35-Year Collection from the Southern United States
Condition Report
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