Police Brutality Viewed Thru Stained Glass Windows: "Who worships here? Who is Their God?"

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A color screenprint by Faith Ringgold illustrating Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” The print depicts the interior of a church with a wall of stained-glass windows in red, purple, green, blue and black comprising the top half of the print. The images formed in the stained-glass windows depict people being sprayed by a firehose, beaten by police officers, and attacked by police dogs. The bottom half of the print depicts a pastor giving a sermon to rows of white parishioners seated in church pews. 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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