The Night Was Black
Artist
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
United States, born 1948
Printer
Kennedy Prints
Date2011
MediumLetterpress
Dimensions19 x 12 1/2 in. (48.3 x 31.8 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.6572
DescriptionThis poster was created for the reopening of the Safe House Black History Museum in Greensboro, Alabama. The organization was founded in 1992 by Theresa Burroughs, a childhood friend of Coretta Scott King and participant in the march to Selma over the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The museum is housed in the building where Martin Luther King Jr. hid from the Ku Klux Klan on March 21, 1968, a few days before he was assassinated. Today, the museum’s programming generally focuses on Civil Rights history at the local level. When speaking of that evening, Burroughs noted that “the night was black and so were we,” referencing how members of the Greensboro community hid in the brush around the home to protect Dr. King. The first half of that quote is printed at the top of this poster.On View
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