The Firing Line [two issues]

Chicago: JOIN Community Union, 1967, 1968. Two issues of the tabloid format newspaper, vol. 1 nos. 10 and 14 (Sept. 25, 1967 and May 10th, 1968). Eight and four pages respectively. Both have horizontal fold, some edgewear and foxing.

Firing Line was a community newspaper published by JOIN, a white urban working class community organization allied with the civil rights movement. These issues include articles about a police raid on JOIN's office, the Poor People's Campaign, and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The later issue reprints text from a flyer that circulated uptown after MLK's death.

Cat.No: 346964

Price: $100.00