Four Little Girls Bombed in a Church: "I am in Birmingham because injustice is here"

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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 the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing with the church in the center of the print amid a pile of dark red and black rubble or flames. The four girls killed in the bombing, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair, are shown as angels in white, flying in the blue sky above the church with their arms outstretched. In the foreground is a white cross with [16th / STREET BAPTIST / CHURCH] written in black. Four Ku Klux Klan members in white robes and hoods huddle in the bottom right corner. 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.

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