Auction Date:2014 Jan 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS signed “Martin,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Southern Christian Leadership Conference letterhead, July 21, 1967. Letter to Reverend Jesse C. Douglas. In part: “I take this means to urge you to attend the Board of Directors Meeting of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta on August 14th. We plan to begin promptly at noon at the Regency Hyatt House Hotel. The meeting is scheduled for 12 noon to 5 p.m. There are several urgent items on the agenda that need your consideration…We are looking forward to a great convention in celebration of our Tenth Anniversary.” King has enclosed a one page sheet with convention registration information and convention highlights (Sidney Poitier speech, entertainment by Aretha Franklin). Some scattered mild toning and rippling, otherwise fine condition. Letter originates from the collection of Martin Luther King’s personal secretary, Maude Ballou, who worked closely with King in the late 1950s.
Ten years after founding the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King continued to fight against all forms of segregation with as much zeal as the day he had begun. At the meeting which he discusses in this letter, King described Congress as ‘wild with racism,’ and disclosed a proposal for a massive camp-out in Washington as part of a new campaign of civil disobedience. With violent riots in Newark the week before (and more to come two days later in Detroit), King hoped that a camp-out in the capital would force Congress to take action to alleviate slum conditions and economic deprivation. This SCLC meeting, held in August of 1967 in Atlanta, was sadly Dr. King’s last, as he was assassinated in Memphis the following spring. Urging Reverend Douglas—who had taken part in the early 1960s lunch-counter sit-ins and the desegregation of the Georgia State Capital building cafeteria, and (with his blond hair and pale skin) risked his life by infiltrating the KKK to find out their plans—to attend this historic meeting, this is a remarkable letter from King’s final year.
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