"UNCLE SAM CAN COUNT ON ME" TWO HANDS DOUBLE "V" FOR VICTORY & CIVIL RIGHTS BUTTON.
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Winning Bid:
$486.75
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, July 25, 2023 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
1.25" no maker. The Double V campaign was started Feb. 7, 1942 by the Pittsburgh Courier, the nation's largest circulation African-American newspaper. The slogan was prompted by a response to a letter asking "Should I Sacrifice To Live 'Half American?'" written by 26-year-old reader James G. Thompson. The campaign was also in response to Franklin D. Roosevelt's encouragement to five editors of the top black newspapers in the United States to reduce their discontent and apathy to the war; their discontent remained, but the editors endorsed the two pronged approach of the Double V Campaign: Victory overseas and victory over inequality at home. Our only previous example realized over $400 in our February 2021 auction. This is high gloss NM example. Rare and historic civil rights artifact of the 1940s.
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