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

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. LOTS 285 - 299 285 286 285 c   (KING, MARTIN LUTHER.) Coming to Cincinnati! The Most Christ-Like Man of Our Times, Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Printed handbill, 9 x 6 inches; minimal wear. Cincinnati, OH, 15 June 1960 [600/900] An advertisement for a lecture during King’s rise to national fame, sponsored by the United Citizens Organization of Cincinnati. “‘If anyone must die, let it be I!’ declared this No. 1 freedom fighter of America. As Southern fury stormed his cause, arrested—jailed—stabbed, he fights on for you and me.” No other examples traced. 286 c   (KING, MARTIN LUTHER.) Hear!! Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Printed handbill, 10 3 / 4 x 7 1 / 2 inches; light edge wear including 1 / 2 -inch chip in one corner, toning. [Nashville, TN]: Darden’s Printing, 27-28 September [1961] [500/750] This flier advertises the events scheduled for the annual meeting of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Harry Belafonte was scheduled to open the proceedings with a Wednesday night concert (though he actually cancelled due to health problems). Thursday afternoon featured addresses by the Rev. James M. Lawson and James Farmer of CORE. On Thursday night, Martin Luther King took the stage at the War Memorial Building. According to an article in the next day’s Nashville Tennessean, King spoke to a crowd of 2,000, urging support for the voter-registration drive in Mississippi.