Folio. 8 color serigraph prints by Ringgold. Original red cloth, morocco lettering-piece gilt on upper cover; publisher’s folding case.

LIMITED EDITION, number 185 of 420 copies, SIGNED BY RINGGOLD. Letter from Birmingham City Jail was penned by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. following his arrest on 12 April 1963 for violating the city’s injunction against “parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing, and picketing”, and largely responded to an open letter published on the day of King’s arrest by eight white Alabama clergymen criticizing Dr. King and his methods. The letter saw its first publication the following month and would later be reprinted in King’s 1964 book Why We Can’t Wait. In the accompanying Note by the Artist Faith Ringgold writes that “What [King] has to say about the life and struggle of black people in America is a treatise on freedom and justice a model for democracy in the world.”