SPANISH CIVIL WAR: "MISS SALARIA KEE" AFRICAN AMERICAN NURSE EVENT POSTER.
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Winning Bid:
$472.00
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, July 26, 2022 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
11x14". St. Louis event original artwork on board. Salaria Kea showed an early fortitude for organizing when she integrated the lunchroom at Harlem Hospital during her education at its nursing school in 1934. By 1935 she had joined the Communist Party, toured the U.S. fundraising for Spain in 1936 and joined the Democratic cause herself in 1937. She worked with the Lincoln International Brigade, establishing a sorely needed field hospital near Madrid, escaped capture after six weeks and finally returned to the U.S. with injuries she received in a bombing raid. She published her memoirs "While Passing Through" in 1938, republished as a pamphlet in 1939. St. Paul A.M.E. was the first church built by and for an African American congregation in St. Louis's historic Mill Creek Valley, once home to Scott Joplin and Josephine Baker. Paint on artist board w/pencil plot lines. Likely unique. Surface dirt and pin holes at corners. Fine.
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