From the Swann Galleries catalogue for their recent “Printed and Manuscript African Americana” auction. (Estimated at $1,500-$2,500, the photo sold for $10K)
“A group photograph of the nine Scottsboro Boys with their attorneys Juanita E. Jackson, and Laura Kellum, sent by the NAACP to assure the boys that they would not be abandoned. Jackson was the first African-American woman to pass the bar in the state of Maryland. This photo was taken by a Crisis Magazine photographer and appeared in the pages of the January 1937 issue.”
