Hanged Black Men (Los Ahorcados, or Negroes)
José Clemente Orozco Mexican
Printer George C. Miller American
Publisher New York Contemporary Print Group
Orozco created this print in New York in response to a request from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)— a civil rights organization—to contribute to its anti-lynching campaign. The subject resonates with Orozco’s personal beliefs, which he expressed in his autobiography, published in 1945: "the whole world is shaken and bloodied by racial hate." Adding to the graphic brutality of the lynching, the figures appear to be engulfed by flames emerging from the bottom of the image.
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