WE TRIED TO TELL YOU fannie lou hamer

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WE TRIED TO TELL YOU fannie lou hamer

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Through close readings of Black radical texts—MLK, the Montgomery Women’s Political Council, and Steve Biko—I kept returning to one truth from these readings and throughout American history: “We tried to tell y’all.”

Fannie Lou Hamer, voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, sharecropper, co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Each 11" x 17" offset and letterpress print features a revolutionary figure who spoke truth and was ignored, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Jo Ann Robinson, Dolores Huerta and the Ashanti warrior.

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Printed at Bidon Community Print & Design Studio in Providence, RI in a course taught by Dr. Marco McWilliams and Jacques Bidon himself, each 11" x 17" print, created using offset and letterpress techniques, highlights a revolutionary figure—famous or unsung—who warned the world and was ignored.

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