Malcolm X Speaks for Us

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A color lithograph print titled “Malcolm X Speaks for Us” by Elizabeth Catlett. Across the top, Catlett repeats the image of a woman's face from her work "I am the black woman." In the upper right quadrant is a black, three-quarter view of Malcom X, looking to the left. In the upper left quadrant is a repeated image of a child's face in a row of three followed by a row of two, varying in colors of brown and orange. This is the same image repeated in Catlett’s “Flowers for George Jackson.” In the bottom left corner is an image of another child's face, repeated three times in an overlapping, horizontal row of green, orange, and blue. The print is titled and signed by the artist in pencil in the lower right corner [Malcolm X Speaks for Us E. Catlett 1969].

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