Brown Versus Board of Education 1954: "White Mothers...on Television screaming Nigger, Nigger, Nigger!"

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A color screenprint by Faith Ringgold illustrating Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” The print depicts an armed National Guardsman outside a school as two young Black children approach the door from the left foreground. On the right, a group of white women yell and gesture at the children. One woman in a green dress holds a sign reading [Keep Negras / OUT / OF OUR School] In the bottom right corner is another protester holding a partially visible sign reading [(NI)GGER / STAY / OUT OF / OUR School]. 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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