Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript African Americana — March 20, 2025
At Auction Thursday, March 20 at 10:30 AM ET
Highlights of this March auction include material related to many of the nation’s most important civil rights leaders, including a manuscript recollection by Rosa Parks of the first time she met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and a scarce printing of Dr. King’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech. A substantial Frederick Douglass section includes a photograph, several of his publications, his handsome autograph statement on voting rights, and an 1886 letter sharing the history of America’s first private school for Black girls.
On the military front, we have a very special copy of Keep Us Flying, the first poster to recognize the Tuskegee Airmen. It was the personal property of the poster’s model, Lt. Robert W. Deiz, and is accompanied by two family snapshots that show the resemblance. Also included are a variety of posters by Danny Lyons for SNCC and Emory Douglas for the Black Panthers. The entertainment section includes a poster for an early appearance of Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra from 1931 and posters for concerts by Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Nina Simone and more.
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Author: Rick Stattler
Category: Printed & Manuscript African Americana
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