Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript African Americana — March 20, 2025 At Auction Thursday, March 20 at 10:30 AM ET Catalogue & Bidding 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. Frederick Douglass, autograph statement on voting rights for ‘all the people without distinction of race or color,’ 1866. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. Rosa Parks, hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., circa 1990s. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000. Alfred Eisenstaedt, group of photographs of Henry Aaron’s family as he hit his record 715th home run, 1974. Estimate $2,500 to $3,500. Keep Us Flying! Buy War Bonds, 1943, with material connecting the poster to its subject, Robert W. Deiz. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000. P.S. Duval, Philadelphia: Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, United States Soldiers at Camp William Penn, hand-colored lithograph, 1864. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000. Order of Calanthe chapter banner, women’s auxiliary of the Knights of Pythias fraternal order, painted silk banner, 1927. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000. Keep in Touch Sign-up for Email Updates Download the Swann Galleries App Share Facebook Twitter February 21, 2025Author: Rick StattlerCategory: Printed & Manuscript African Americana Tags: Aaron family photos abolitionist African American history Alfred Eisenstaedt Americana Aretha Franklin auction Brown Cab Calloway Calloway civil rights activist Civil War Danny Lyons Deiz Douglas Douglass Early Printed Books Emory Douglas Franklin Frederick Douglass James Brown King lithographer Lyons manuscript Martin Luther King Jr. military camp Nina Simone Order of Calanthe P.S. Duval painted banner Parks photographer photographic americana Printed & Manuscript African Americana Printed & Manuscript Americana Robert W. Deiz Rosa Parks Simone voting rights statement Previous Artist Profile: Edward Weston Next Mexican Muralists & Their Impact on the WPA Recommended Posts Early Printed Books: April 2021 Highlights Books & Manuscripts March 16, 2021 A Look Inside the Birdman of Alcatraz Printed & Manuscript Americana April 8, 2014 Fine Books & Manuscripts: Auction Highlights for July 30, 2020 Books & Manuscripts July 9, 2020