By Parties Unknown

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white linocut, By Parties Unknown, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop in New York City, 1996. The print depicts the lynched body of a male figure, noose tied around his neck and hands bound behind his back, lain on the steps of a church. The wooden steps lead to the closed double doors of the church, which has a crumbling wooden façade and arched stained glass windows. In the bottom margins is the edition, [78/100] at left and [© Hale Woodruff] at right. There are no markings on the verso.

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