Object Details
- Designer
- Faith Ringgold, American, 1930 – 2024
- Description
- Poster with the map of the United States of America depicted in green and red with the states outlined and words printed in black. The words note Indigenous, slave, and immigrant uprisings and their dates and other details of acts of violence that occured within each state since the late 1700s. "The United States of Attica/ Founded by the American People on/ Sept. 13, 1971 at Attica Prison, N.Y. Where/ 42 Men Gave Their Lives in an Heroic/ Struggle for Freedom..." printed at upper center. The image cut into quarters by alternating backgrounds and contrasting map colors. "This Map of American Violence is Incomplete/ Please Write in Whatever You Find Lacking" printed at lower center.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, and from the General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
- 1972
- Accession Number
- 2022-20-3
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 55.2 × 69.9 cm (21 3/4 × 27 1/2 in.)
- designed in
- New York, New York, United States
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2022-20-3
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq41c426417-d5a6-4cb7-8cf4-72e439097892
