279
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(CIVIL RIGHTS—NAACP.)
Group of over fifty NAACP, Civil Rights
related broadsides, hand-bills, flyers etc..
Various sizes. Condition generally fine.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Vp, 1950’s-1960’s
[800/1,200]
Includes the scarce mimeographed NAACP Boston Youth Council newsletter “Montgomery
U.S.A..,” small poster for the Brotherhood Rally “Mississippi and Murder,” “How to Register
Voters,” “‘No Comment, Nixon’ versus A Candidate With a Heart-Senator John F.
Kennedy.” The Case of Dr. Martin Luther King,” “Vengeance on the Young,” “Youth March
for Integrated Schools,” House Bill H.R. 3476 “A Bill to Protect the Right to Political
Participation,” an NAACP recruitment station poster “Join Here,” and much more.
280
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(CIVIL RIGHTS—NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN.)
Stop
Racism Now.
Round poster-placard, printed in red on both sides; 23 inches in diameter;
some light scuffing; pin hole at the top where posted.
[Washington, D.C., circa 1968-1970]
[600/800]
An unusual and inventive placard from NOW, in the shape of a “stop sign.”
281
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(CIVIL RIGHTS—RACE RIOTS.)
Omaha’s Riot, 1919. In Story &
Picture.
Copiously illustrated. 26 pages. Oblong 12mo, original printed wrappers, stapled;
heavily creased where folded in half; post WWI pulp paper toned and fragile.
(Omaha: Beacon Press, 1919)
[800/1,200]
A rare survival of a questionable souvenir of one of America’s bloodiest race riots, coming in the
autumn of the deadly “Red Summer” of 1919. Federal investigators later said that “a clash
was imminent owing to ill-feeling between white and black workers in the stockyards.” The
number of blacks in Omaha had doubled during the decade 1910-1920, as they were recruited
to work in the meatpacking industry. This fact did not go unnoticed by competing white labor.
In 1910 Omaha had the third largest black population among the new western cities that had
become destinations following the Reconstruction “Exodus.” The Omaha Race Riot took place
during September 28-29, 1919, and resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black worker;
the death of two white men; the attempted lynching of the mayor Edward Parsons Smith; and
a public rampage by thousands of whites who set fire to the Douglas County Courthouse in
downtown Omaha. It followed more than 20 race riots in major industrial cities of the United
States during the “Red Summer of 1919.”
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