The Press, the people say thank you, Avery Brundage … we’ll vote yes on Proposition “A” June 7.

San Francisco: San Franciscans United for Proposition A, 1960. Ephemera. [4] pages, illustrations, wraps. 11 x 8.5 in. Folded horizontally twice, for mailing, otherwise Very Good. Cover title. Printed in green ink. Union bug at foot of page [4].

Endorsements from various civic organizations and city newspapers for (the ultimately successful) Proposition A, a bond measure to build a museum wing to house and display Brundage’s 8,000-item collection of Asian art. Brundage was a sports administrator for the Olympics. He strongly opposed the boycott of the 1936 games in Nazi Germany, and was president of the IOC during the 1972 games, when eleven Israeli athletes were murdered. He threatened to ban the US track team after Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised Black Power fists at the 1968 games, leading to the athletes’ suspensions. In 2020, a bust of Brundage was removed from the entrance to the Asian Art Museum after his record of anti-black and anti-Semitic actions resurfaced.

Cat.No: 299748

Price: $50.00