WE TRIED TO TELL YOU fannie lou hamer
WE TRIED TO TELL YOU fannie lou hamer
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.
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.
Limited run. Shipping available.