90-Year-Old Elizabeth Meaders To Auction Her 20,000 Piece Collection of African-American History
A former teacher, has been able to attain 20,000-pieces of artifacts reflecting the Black American experience, will be placed on auction. The 90-year-old Black woman asking the question, “What is the value of the story of a people?” — will began the bid at one million dollars. The collection’s owner and curator Elizabeth Meaders has been acquiring pieces for the last 60 years keeping the books in her Staten Island home CBS News reported. Meadors has decided to work with Guernsey’s Auction House to sell the artifacts that she refers to as the “African-American History Trust Collection.”
The elderly woman says that she was “obsessed with collecting African-American history,” and it has “soothed her soul” to preserve the history.
Meaders said she wanted to create a “patriotic healing and teaching instrument, to compensate for the fact that as a teacher and just as an ordinary citizen” she knows “that African-American history has been completely omitted from American history.”
Meaders organized the pieces, which included thousands of posters, books, slave shackles, clothing, statues, rare photographs and various artifacts by eras and themes, occupying every part of her home. “I have 14 museums in my house,” she said.
The collection includes a photo of , “slaves being branded,” a “bronze statue of Joe Lewis” and a pair of Muhammad Ali’s shoes.
Arlan Ettinger of Guernsey’s Auction House said, “There’s never been an auction of a large collection being sold as a collection like this” talking about the collection.
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