“I would try to tell my story with images of America as I saw it in the 1960s.” Created in the summer of 1967, during waves of civil unrest in response to police brutality in Black neighborhoods across the US, this powerful painting, the final work in Ringgold’s American People Series, unflinchingly confronts race relations.The mural-sized canvas depicts well-dressed, white and Black figures fleeing, fighting, and killing one another, with an interracial pair of children cowering at the center. “How could I as an African-American woman artist document what was happening all around me?” asked Faith Ringgold in speaking about her motivation behind creating American People Series #20: Die.
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