A Letter From Martin Luther King: "While confined here in Birmingham City Jail"

Source catalog description

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A color screenprint by Faith Ringgold illustrating a line from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” The print depicts King in a jail cell. He is holding a pencil in his right hand and a letter in his left. He is wearing a blue jacket and pants and looking out between bars. Handwritten in graphite is the edition [46/75] in the lower left corner with the date and signature [Faith Ringgold 2007] at lower right. The back of the print is blank.

Catalog date

2007

Recorded places

Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America; Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Activism; Art; Civil Rights; Prisons; U.S. History, 1961-1969

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