Faith Ringgold

A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.

The author recounts the life of Martin Luther King in the form of her own dream.

With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the Underground Railroad in order to reunite with her younger brother.

"Alongside reproductions of key works made between 1967 and 1981, Faith Ringgold: Politics / Power provides an overview of Ringgold's seminal artistic and activist work, and its historical context during these years, including accounts by the artist herself. During the 1960s and 1970s, Ringgold, a dedicated and impassioned civil rights advocate, established her voice as a feminist and within the Black Arts Movement. Her influential work expressed...

Faith Ringgold is a critically acclaimed American artist whose unique methods of visual storytelling have documented and advanced art historical, feminist, and civil-rights movements for more than half a century. Accompanying a major retrospective at the New Museum, New York, this expansive survey covers work from all periods of her career, including her early civil rights-era figurative paintings, her graphic political protest posters, and her signature...

Examines the work and methods of four American textile artists: Faith Ringgold, creator of painted story quilts that tell the African American experience and the history of Harlem; Randall Darwall, maker of quilts and garments; Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, who incorporates weaving, sewing, painting, and appliqué to address her indigenous heritage; Terese Agnew, who makes quilts using a method she calls "drawing with thread."