For Whites Only: "Funtown is closed to colored children"

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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 color screenprint by Faith Ringgold illustrating a line from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” The print depicts a segregated amusement park surrounded by a chain link fence. Two Black children wearing white are looking through the fence at a large crowd of people inside the amusement park where a carousel and roller coaster are visible in the background. A pink and red triangular sign on top of the fence reads [FUNTOWN] with two United States flags crossed above it. On the fence are two white signs with black text on the fence reading [Fun Town is / Closed to / Colored Children] and [Whites Only]. 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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