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Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Vol. 76, No. 2, Whole Number 660. Cover portrait of Frederick Douglass by Charles Alston. Slim octavo. [3], 58-97, [5] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Address label of Anna Butler (see below) on the lower wrap causing just a bit of rippling, front cover with a bit of faint staining, a near fine copy. Prints "The Negro as Fighting Man" by Michael S. Davidson, "Negro History or Mythology" by Roy Wilkins, "That Other Man" by playwright Loften Mitchell, "Teach Me Harlem, a Poem" by Lee Bennett Hopkins, "Alston: American Artist" by Warren Marr, II", and a six-page history of the NAACP (that month being its sixtieth anniversary), among other material. The final five pages print photographs of NAACP members honored with Life Memberships. The recipient of this copy is undoubtedly Atlantic City schoolteacher Anna Land Butler, an African-American woman who published at least two books of poetry, one of which (we handled the magazine's response letter) she submitted to *The Crisis*. An interesting issue with a nice association.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Periodical. Octavo. 140, [2] pp. Illustrated. Address label of Warren Morgan of Baltimore (see below) on the lower wrap, causing a bit of light rippling. Light wear and a bit of light marginal foxing, near fine. Issue of the important NAACP magazine, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, published the month of Dr. King's assassination. Given the fact that they had almost no time to prepare, this issue prints a memorial cover portrait, an editorial titled "The Martyrdom of Martin Luther King, Jr.," and "NAACP mourns loss of Dr. King" in the "Battlefront section," alongside several articles that must have already been slated for publication. (The intrepid B.T. Enterprises of Cleveland, Ohio, has also taken out a half-page ad selling memorial medals honoring Dr. King.) This issue was mailed to Warren Morgan of Baltimore, a civil rights activist who was also sadly the victim of racial violence: according to a March, 1964 article in *The New York Times*, Morgan (at that time the head of Students Action for Equality at Maryland State College) and six other African-American students were invited by the pastor to Easter Service at a White Methodist church, and three of them were attacked after the service by a dozen young White men. Warren was hospitalized with a fractured cheekbone. Warren would go on to receive his doctorate at Oklahoma State University and work as the Vice President of Student Affairs at Florida A&M University and Dean of Student Affairs at Benedict College, among others. An important copy of an important magazine with a powerful association.