Rosa Parks Signed 1st Day Cover Honoring Pearl Buck

A First Day Cover signed by Rosa Parks as "Rosa L. Parks" in the address panel of an envelope measuring 6.5" x 3.625". The red-printed cachet honoring Pearl Buck is part of the Great Americans Series by Artmaster. Also features four intact Pearl Buck 5-cent postage stamps canceled with "First Day of Issue". Postmarked from Hillsboro, WV on June 25, 1983. Certified and encapsulated by PSA/DNA to an overall size of 9.5" x 4.5." Very light wear to the envelope, else in fine condition. A superb example tying together two extraordinary women in civil rights history.

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. She received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1996) and the Congressional Gold Medal (1999). Congress has honored Parks as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". 

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) was the first American woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The daughter of American missionaries to China, she spent most of her first forty years in that country. It was the setting of her famous novel The Good Earth, which was the first book of a trilogy about the travails and successes of a Chinese farm family. This novel earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Howells Medal in 1935, and she won the Nobel Prize in 1938 for the trilogy as well as for biographies of her parents. After returning to the United States in 1935, Buck became an activist and prominent advocate of the rights of women and racial equality.

This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.

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