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Beautiful poster by the famous print outfit Tea Lautrec. This poster was produced likely shortly after MLK’s death. It is exceeding rare and in exceptional condition.

The poster portrays a leading printer of rock concert posters during San Francisco’s vibrant music scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Tea Lautrec Litho was founded and owned by Levon Mosgofian (1907-1994), a master printer who spent more than five decades in the printing business.

The poster features the transcript of Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. The text is arranged in the shape of a cross over an image of a person on a beach, and the bottom right corner features King's name.

The speech is a powerful call for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.

Key themes include the vision of a nation where people are not judged by their skin color but by their character.

The text emphasizes hope, shared power, and the belief that the situation of racial injustice can and will be changed.

The speech has had a lasting legacy on American society and the global fight for human rights

“MARTIN LUTHER KING tea lautrec litho San Francisco” in the lower right corner.

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A beautiful peace, a visual capsule representing the politics and social discourse of the United States circa late 1960s.

I HAVE A DREAM

NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE REAL THE PROMISES OF DEMOCRACY, NOR IS THE TIME TO RISE FROM THE DARK AND DESOLATE VALLEY OF SEGREGATION TO THE SUNLIT PATH RACIAL JUSTICE. NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE JUSTICE A REALITY FOR ALL GOD'S CHILDREN. STILL HAVE A DREAM. IT IS A DREAM DEEPLY ROOTED IN THE AMERICAN DREAM. I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY THIS NATION WILL RISE UP AND LIVE OUT THE TRUE MEANING OF ITS CREED: WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT THAT ALL MEN CREATED EQUAL. I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY ON THE RED HILLS OF GEORGIA THE SONS OF FORNER SLAVES AND THE SONS OF FORMER SLAVE OWNERS WILL BE ABLE TO SIT DOWN TOGETHER AT THE TABLE OF BROTHERHOOD... I HAVE A DREAM THAT MY FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN WILL ONE DAY LIVE IN A NATION WHERE THEY WILL NOT BE JUDGED BY THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN BUT THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER. I HAVE A DREAM TODAY... 1 HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY THE STATE OF ALABAMA...BILL BE TRANSFORMED INTO A SITUATION WHERE LITTLE BLACK BOYS AND GIRLS WILL BE ABLE TO JOIN HANDS WITH LITTLE WHITE BOYS AND GIRLS AND WALK TOGETHER AS SISTERS AND BROTHERS. I HAVE A DREAM TODAY... THIS IS THE FAITH WITH WHICH I RETORN TO THE SOUTH... WITH TIIS FAITH BE BILL BE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER, TO PRAY TOGETHER, TO GO TO JAIL TOGETHER, KNOWING THAT WE WILL BE FREE ONE DAY... AND IF AMERICA IS TO BECOME A GREAT NATION THIS MUST BECOME TRUE... WHEN WE LET FREEDOM RING FROM EVERY VILLAGE AND EVERY HAMLET, FROM EVERY STATE AND EVERY CITY, WE WILL BE ABLE TO SPEED UP THAT DAY WHEN ALL OF GOD'S CHILDREN BLACK MEN AND WHITE MEN, JEWS AND GENTILES, PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS, WILL BE ABLE TO JOIN HANDS AND SING IN THE WORDS OF THAT OLD NEGRO SPIRITUAL, 'FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, WE ARE FREE AT LAST!! WASHINGTON 1963

...AND THE FACT IS THAT MILLIONS OF NEGROES, AS A RESULT OF CENTURIES OF DENIAL AND NEGLECT, HAVE BEEN LEFT BOOTLESS, AND THEY FIND THEM SELVES IMPOVERISHED IMPOVERISHED ALIENS IN THIS AFFL AFFLUENT SOCIETY. AND THERE IS A GREAT DEAL THAT THE SOCIETY CAN AND MUST DO IF THE NEGRO IS TO GAIN THE ECONOMIC SECURITY THAT HE NEEDS. NOW ONE OF THE ANSWERS, IT SEEMS TO ME, IS A GUARANTEED ANNUAL INCOME, FOR ALL PEOPLE AND FOR ALL FAMILIES OF OUR COUNTRY. THE WAR IN VIETNAM IS ALLOWING THE GREAT SOCIETY TO BE SHOT DOWN ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF VIETNAM EVERYDAY, AND I SUBMIT THIS AFTERNOON THAT WE CAN END POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES. OUR NATION HAS THE RESOURCES TO DO IT. THE NATIONAL GROSS PRODUCT OF AMERICA WILL RISE TO THE ASTOUNDING FIGURES OF SOME SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY BILLION DOLLARS THIS YEAR. WE HAVE THE RESOURCES, THE QUESTION IS WHETHER OUR NATION HAS THE WILL. AND I SUBMIT, THAT IF WE CAN SPEND THIRTY FIVE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO FIGHT AN ILL-CONSIDERED WAR IN VIETNAM, AND TWENTY BILLION DOLLARS TO PUT A MAN ON THE MOON, OUR NATION CAN SPEND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO PUT GOD'S CHILDREN ON THEIR OWN TWO FEET RIGHT HERE ON EARTH. WE NEED EACH OTHER. THE NEGRO NEEDS THE WHITE MAN TO SAVE HIM FROM HIS FEARS. THE WHITE MAN NEEDS THE NEGRO TO SAVE HIM FROM HIS GUILT. WE ARE TIED TOGETHER IN SO MANY WAYS: OUR LANGUAGE, OUR MUSIC, OUR CULTURAL PATTERNS, OUR MATERIAL PROSPERITY, AND EVEN OUR FOOD, ARE AN AMALGAM OF BLACK AND WHITE. AND SO THERE CAN BE NO SEPARATE BLACK PATH TO POWER AND FULFILLMENT THAT DOES NOT INTERSECT WHITE ROOTS, AND THERE CAN BE NO SEPARATE WHITE PATH TO POWER AND FULFILLMENT SHORT OF SOCIAL DISASTER THAT DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE NEED OF SHARING THAT POWER WITH BLACK ASPIRATIONS FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE. WE MUST COME TO SEE NOW THAT INTEGRATION IS NOT MERELY A ROMANTIC OR ESTHETIC SOMETHING, WHERE YOU MERELY ADD COLOR TO A STILL PREDOMINANTLY WHITE POWER STRUCTURE. INTEGRATION MUST BE SEEN ALSO IN POLITICAL TERMS, WHERE THERE IS SHARED POWER, AND WHERE BLACK AND WHITE MEN SHARE POWER TOGETHER TO BUILD A NEW AND GREAT NATION. IN A REAL SENSE, WE ARE ALL CAUGHT IN AN INESCAPABLE NETWORK OF MUTUALITY, TIED IN A SINGLE GARMENT OF DESTINY. AND JOHN DONNE PLACED IT YEARS AGO IN GRAPHIC TERMS. 'NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, INTIRE OF ITSELFE... EVERY MAN IS A PEECE OF THE CONTINENT, A PART OF THE MAINE. ANY MAN'S DEATH DIMINISHES ME, BECAUSE I AM INVOLVED IN MANKINDE: AND THEREFORE NEVER SEND TO KNOW FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, IT TOLLS

FOR THEE. STANFORD 1966