[CIVIL RIGHTS]. Negro History Week. A group of 2 posters for 1965 and 1968.

Freedom from Racial Myths and Stereotypes through Negro History / Negro History Week / February 12-20. Washington, DC: Association For The Study Of Negro Life & History. 11 x 8 1/2 in. poster. Additional text at top "1915 / Fifty Years Of Service To The Nation / 1965."

[With:] Negro History and the Fourteenth Amendment / Negro History Week / February 11-17, 1968. Washington, DC: Association For The Study Of Negro Life & History. 22 x 17 in. poster. Additional dates at top, "1868 / 1968."

Negro History Week, the precursor to Black History Month, was founded in 1925 by Carter G. Woodson to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. By the 1940s, Negro History Week was widely celebrated and had become a central part of African American culture. Early ephemera from these celebrations, however, remains extremely scarce.

Property from a 35-Year Collection from the Southern United States

This lot is located in Cincinnati.