With her powerful folk art paintings, Faith Ringgold narrates her own dream of Martin Luther King, Jr., sharing his life journey from a young child growing up in the segregated south to his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement to the aftermath of his assassination with the children’s book My Dream of Martin Luther King. As her dream begins, a diverse patchwork of men, women, and children carry “bags containing their prejudice, hate, ignorance, violence, and fear…” By the end of the narrative, we see these bags in flames with the artist’s words boldly splashed across the image: “Every good thing starts with a dream.”

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Faith Ringgold – http://faithringgold.com/
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – http://www.thekingcenter.org/

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