Sale 2503 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 28, 2019

235 234 c   (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of Wyatt Tee Walker items. Various sizes; condition strong. Vp, 1980-2018 [300/400] Wyatt Tee Walker (1928-2018) was an important Civil Rights leader—a founder of the Congress of Racial Equality, director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and chief of staff to Martin Luther King. From 1967 to 2004, he served as pastor of the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem, before retiring to Virginia. Offered here are his circular letter from the “Committee to Elect Wyatt Tee Walker to the New York State Assembly,” in English and Spanish, September 1980 * Manuscript notes from a memorial service in honor of Walker * and a signed copy of his pamphlet “My Stroke of Grace,” [2002]. 235 c   (COMIC BOOKS.) First issue of Lobo, the first comic book series with an African-American lead character. [32] illustrated pages. 4to, 10 1 / 4 x 7 inches, original color pictorial wrappers, moderate wear including light diagonal crease on front wrapper; minimal wear to contents. New York: Dell Publishing, December 1965 [300/400] “Lobo” tells the story of an African-American Civil War veteran who becomes a heroic fugitive in the Old West. Only one other issue followed, in October 1966. with —the first three issues of Fast Willie Jackson, a comic book very much in the spirit of Archie Comics, but with an African-American cast and mid-1970s fashion sensibility. Gus LeMoine, who did the artwork, had worked on Archie since the 1950s. New York: Fitzgerald Periodicals, October 1976 to February 1977.