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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Poster for the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee on police killings at Jackson State College.
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$300 - $400
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$188
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Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Description
Typeset: (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Poster for the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee on police killings at Jackson State College. Double-sized poster, 22 x 14½ inches; mailing folds, minor wear, mailing staple holes on edges, typed address label to California supporter on verso. New York, circa 1970
Footnote: The front side presents as a poster: "Jackson State College 1967: The Death of Benjamin Brown. . . Jackson State College 1970: The Deaths of Philip Gibbs and James Earl Green. . . Jackson State College 1973 . . . ?" On verso are 3 pages of text credited to Patricia Horan, an illustration and a mailing panel. The text explains the two ugly incidents at Jackson State College in Mississippi, as well as similar battles at Mississippi Valley State College and in the Homer, LA public schools. One in OCLC, at Brown University.