479.CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT A superb lot of ephemera related to the CivilRights movement, including two scarce handbills, one promoting integration, theother opposed. The latter is quite dramatic, an 8vo. size flyer on green paperissued by the Citizen's Council of Greater New Orleans urging whites to "STOPBuying FORD CARS and TRUCKS and other Ford Products. For years and years aconsiderable portion of the profits from the sale of Ford cards, trucks andother Ford products have been funneled into tax free foundations. MILLIONS andMILLIONS and MILLIONS of dollars of Ford profits have been distributed tointegration and civil rights organizations to fight the white people of theSOUTH, by forcing them to associate with Negroes...". The second is an 8vo.size handbill on thin paper urging the "Boy-Cott" of "Stag Beer".The printed bill asks: "Are you A Stag Beer Drinker? IF YOU ARE, YOU AREDRINKING SEGREGATION DON'T DRINK SEGREGATION — FIGHT IT!". Offeredtogether with a scarce typescript of the constitution of the Los AngelesCongress of Racial Equality (LA CORE) as printed in their Active MembershipBulletin of Oct. 16, 1963, 6pp. 4to., calling a meeting to discuss saiddocument. Also together with the N.A.A.C.P.'s annual report for 1952, entitledThe Fight for Freedom in a Transition Year (New York: N.A.A.C.P., 1953), 95pp.8vo. in titled wraps. Finally, a first day issue folder, for the 1963 5 centEmancipation Proclamation stamp (together with stamp) and a brochure for theFrederick Douglas home in Washington. Together six pages, in very good to finecondition. $250 - 350