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Featured in the October 19th Historic African Americana Signature® Auction, we have three Allied Printing poster-board signs carried by marchers during the Poor People's Campaign of 1968 and Martin Luther King Jr's funeral. The "I am a Man" and "Union Justice Now" signs were carried in the daily marches in support of the sanitation workers' strike.
On April 8, 1968, the day before MLK's funeral, a peaceful march numbering in the thousands took place through the streets of Memphis. The "Honor King" signs were created for the memorial march and carried by those in the silent crowd.
Very few of these hastily-created signs have survived, and many regard them as "Holy Grail" items in the pantheon of Civil Rights Movement collectibles. The events in Memphis were a watershed moment in the evolution of the American Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King based his theme on an appeal to people's innate goodness and fairness and emphasized the equality of opportunity.
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