advertisement published in the New York Ace Defender, February 4, 1956


The rally was in the aftermath of the lynching of a 14 year old African-American boy, Emmett Louis Till, in Mississippi in 1955. and the acquittal of two whjte men in a trial that ended ln September 1955. The crome spurred the beginnings of the civil rights movement.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
May 2026