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Title: We Shall Overcome: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963 - with banner and additional ephemera relating to the march 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. Added to the lot is a rare original felt triangular pennant, 72 cm. (28¼") long, blue with white lettering, reading "March on Washington/ for Jobs & Freedom Wed. Aug. 28, 1963/ And Let the World Know "I Was There"/ We Want Freedom." Also, several ephemeral pieces: Flier, "Souvenir of Washington, D.C... Our Flag Above All, Our Negro Music..."; 3 examples of the 4-page Lincoln Memorial Program for the march; 4-page flier, "The Dunbar Book Company Presents Negro Literature... March on Washington Catalog"; small broadside advertising the march; 2 pledge postcards for support and contributions to the cause. Lot Amendments Condition: Just a touch of wear to the folder; pennant with a few tiny pin (or moth?) holes; the collection in near fine to fine condition. Item number: 220130