Giddap

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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, Giddap, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop in New York City, 1996. The depicts the lynching of a Black man by a crowd of White men and women. The man stands in the back of a horse-drawn wagon. There is a noose around his neck, tied to a tree overhead. The driver of the wagon holds a whip poised above the horse’s back, while the surrounding people jeer and raise their fists. 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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