The Sixties Catalogue

27 J u l y 2 0 2 0 “We All Cry For Freedom!” 25. HANSBERRY, Lorraine. The Movement. Documentary of a Struggle for Equality. New York, 1964. Quarto, original photographic paper wrappers. $1200. Click for more info First edition of this powerful visual record of America’s Civil Rights struggle, with text by Lorraine Hansberry—her last book published before her death at age 34— accompanied by 148 black-and-white photogravures, most by award-winning photographer Danny Lyon, the first appearance in book form of his work, along with striking images by Robert Frank, David Heath, Roy De Carava and others. An unblinking, often searing document of America’s Civil Rights struggle, authored by acclaimed playwright Lorraine Hansberry. The Movement was the final work published in her lifetime, appearing less than one year before her death at age 34. This is the first printing ; first cloth edition published same year as first in wrappers. Very small owner bookplate. Only faint rubbing to fragile wrappers. A fine copy. “The first published book of civil rights photography.” —Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust