Attack on Youths Collage

On the small, yellowed newspaper clipping the headline read: "Two Men Held in Attack on Youths". It was about a couple of young Negro men being threatened by a couple of white men…it is about a hate crime perpetrated against my father and his friends. The reproduced article forms a background and the transparent stripes were made by combining pigment with varnish. Each star is cut out individually and applied to the canton (blue box with the stars) and presented vertically with the canton in the upper right-hand corner, opposite of the customary upper left-hand position to emphasize the solemnity of the event that took place.