Title: We Shall Overcome: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963 Author: LoMonaco, Louis Place: New York Publisher: National Urban League Date: [1963] Description: Seven leaves, including introduction, contents leaf and five collages by LoMonaco. 10¾x9, original pictorial paper folder, also with a collage by LoMonaco. "This collection of graphic collages has been created specifically as a memento for those who participated in the historic March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963. It depicts man's inhumanity, his cruelty to his fellow being. This memento, we believe, will inspire us to assert man's decency and goodness through an understanding of anguish." (Introduction). Signed in facsimile by the march organizers and leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, Whitney M. Young Jr., and Josephus (then the last living slave of antebellum America). Rare. OCLC WorldCat locates only 3 copies, a 4th copy resides in the Library of Congress. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear at edges, foxing to rear panel of folder; very good. Item number: 218036
Title: We Shall Overcome: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963 Author: LoMonaco, Louis Place: New York Publisher: National Urban League Date: [1963] Description: Seven leaves, including introduction, contents leaf and five collages by LoMonaco. 10¾x9, original pictorial paper folder, also with a collage by LoMonaco. "This collection of graphic collages has been created specifically as a memento for those who participated in the historic March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963. It depicts man's inhumanity, his cruelty to his fellow being. This memento, we believe, will inspire us to assert man's decency and goodness through an understanding of anguish." (Introduction). Signed in facsimile by the march organizers and leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, Whitney M. Young Jr., and Josephus (then the last living slave of antebellum America). Rare. OCLC WorldCat locates only 3 copies, a 4th copy resides in the Library of Congress. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear at edges, foxing to rear panel of folder; very good. Item number: 218036
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