1971 Sepia Magazine...Jackson Five, Arthur Ashe, Pearl Bailey

Description

This auction is for a Vintage 1971 edition of
Sepia Magazine
.  Sepia was a photojournalistic magazine styled like
Look
and sometimes compared to
Ebony
, featured articles based primarily on achievements of African Americans.  It was part of the rise of postwar publicatins and businesses aimed at black audiences.  The magazine was founded in 1946 as
Negro Achievements
by Horace J. Blackwell, an African American clothing merchant of Fort Worth, Texas.
This edition features an interesting and thorough interview on
Race
by James Michener.  Also features an article on the hottest singing sensation in America at the time,
The Jackson Five
. Other articles include: The Pearl Bailey Nobody Knows; Black Ace [Arthur Ashe] in a White World; The World's Most Costly Painting [of a Negro]; America's Toughest Black Gang [Black P Stone]; Cop Art; How To Think About Race; Hair: The Fastest Way to Make a Million and much more.
Lots of good reading and Black vintage advertising!!!!
DESCRIPTION: Sepia Publishing Company: Fort Worth, Texas; Vol XX, No. 4; April 1971; 82 pages; good condition in paper wraps; some splitting to front cover near hinge with tape; light scuffing to covers with very light browning to some pages;
illustrated with b/w and some color photos; full of vintage black advertising throughout; otherwise, text is clean; binding is good.
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GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY BIDDING....