Birmingham Race Riot
Artist
Andy Warhol
(American, 1928–1987)
Publisher
Wadsworth Atheneum
, 1964
Date1964
Mediumscreenprint
Dimensionsimage: 50.6 x 60.8 cm (19 15/16 x 23 15/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineTransferred from the Museum School
Object number1964.115.5
Label TextActivist and photojournalist Danny Lyon was in the midst of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement when he caught this entrance to a café in Jim Crow-era Selma, Alabama. While legal segregation based on race remained strong in the mid-century American South, physical force also controlled the access people of color had to many spaces and services. Andy Warhol’s monochrome screen-print reproduces a press photo revealing how violence and intimidation worked to undermine the status of African Americans in the public sphere.ProvenanceSource unknown. Number assigned, 1985.On View
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