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[email protected] New Acquisitions in Americana October 2020 The Negro Civic League Reacts to Elections in Florida 1. [African Americana]: [Negro Civic League]: NEGRO VOTERS SOLD OUT IN JUNE 2, PRIMARY. YOU HAVE BEEN SOLD AGAIN AND THIS TIME BY YOUR OWN LEADERS. [Jacksonville, Fl.? N.d., ca. 1946-1956]. Handbill, 9 x 6 inches. Three small chips at top and right margins (no text af- fected). Tanned. Good. Handbill issued by the Negro Civic League referring to an election we could not identify, but which was one of a series of controversial elections in Duval County, which at the time had the largest percentage of African-American registered voters in Florida. The text states: “You have been sold again and this time by your own Leaders. If you want the truth as to what you are worth, and who sold you Out, attend the Mass Meeting at the Odd Fellows Hall, Odessa & Florida Ave. Thurs. June 11, 8p.m. Karl Westphall & Harry Courtney will speak.” The officers of the Negro Civic League are given at the bottom: “Arthur Reynolds, Pres.” and “Bessie Robinson, Sec.” Elston E. Roady, “The Expansion of Negro Suffrage in Florida” in Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 26, no. 3 (Summer, 1957), pp.297-306. $225. An Unrecorded Chicago Cattle Auction Catalogue from 1888 2. [Cattle]: [Huston, Rigdon]: CLOSING OUT SALE OF THE HILL- A substantial and unrecorded cattle auction catalogue advertising the sale of the DALE HERD OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE PROPERTY OF THE LATE late Rigdon Huston’s Hilldale Herd in Chicago in 1888.