"MISSISSIPPI" LYNCHING SNCC CIVIL RIGHTS FREEDOM SUMMER RECRUITING POSTER.
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Winning Bid:
$194.70
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, November 13, 2018 10:00:00 PM)
Item Description
10.25x16.25" offset litho on thin paper. SNCC reproduced a ghastly 1935 image of the Bert Moor and Dooley Morton lynching to illustrate the brutal reality faced by African Americans on this poster used in recruiting volunteers for Freedom Summer. Moor and Morton were accused of attacks on white women in Columbus, MS and were taken by a mob from the custody of the local sheriff. During the 1964 effort to register black voters, over 80 civil rights workers were beaten and three were heinously murdered. Efforts to register voters proved futile but the increased media attention had a significant effect on the civil rights movement. Two horizontal folds along lower third otherwise extremely clean. Fine. A scarce artifact of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committees efforts to register voters in Mississippi.
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