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During the exhibition, Faith Ringgold, Jean Toche and Jon Hendricks are arrested for their "desecrations" of the flag, which in Ringgold's case isn't really the use of a flag as much as it is a repainting of the flag with the words Die Nigger interspersed with the Stars and Stripes.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

Displaying the extremist and violent side to American life that we came to know well in the 1960s both as a result of the proliferation of television and the profusion of hand guns circulating among ordinary Americans newly empowered by postwar income, the series comes somewhat as a shock to the audiences accustomed to seeing Ringgold's later depictions of historical scenes and everyday African American life.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

Displaying the extremist and violent side to American life that we came to know well in the 1960s both as a result of the proliferation of television and the profusion of hand guns circulating among ordinary Americans newly empowered by postwar income, the series comes somewhat as a shock to the audiences accustomed to seeing Ringgold's later depictions of historical scenes and everyday African American life.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

Although she becomes highly regarded from the 1970s onward for her many series of African-American story quilts, the American People series remains hidden from public view until November, 2011, when the Miami Art Museum features them in the exhibition, "American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s."

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

During the exhibition, Faith Ringgold, Jean Toche and Jon Hendricks are arrested for their "desecrations" of the flag, which in Ringgold's case isn't really the use of a flag as much as it is a repainting of the flag with the words Die Nigger interspersed with the Stars and Stripes.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

Although she becomes highly regarded from the 1970s onward for her many series of African-American story quilts, the American People series remains hidden from public view until November, 2011, when the Miami Art Museum features them in the exhibition, "American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s."

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

She also lists Faith Ringgold's picture book "Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky" (1995) in her list of "Works Cited," although she does not mention it all in her paper, possibly because the book doesn't have anything to do with quilts.

Jilted quilts Roger Sutton 2007

Wilkes's "Ringgold's Knoll" and "Eld's Peak" were wiped off the map, and nothing was seen of "Cape Hudson," though the Discovery passed well within sight of its supposed position.

The South Pole~ The History of the South Pole 2009

Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts (University of California Press. $45) is affectionately subversive: a black mother and daughters do-si-do in front of the Mona Lisa; Vincent himself brings an armful of van Gogh sunflowers to Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer.

All I Want For Christmas... 2008

With Ringgold's spirit for the fray, With Watson's blood at Monterey,

Maryland My Maryland 1998