My Role Has Been Important in the Struggle to Organize the Unorganized, from the series I am the Black Woman

This print is part of a series on Black women and the history of their oppression, accomplishments, and resilience. In this print, a Black woman with a powerfully raised arm speaks to men (one of whom holds a pamphlet that says “Join”), emphasizing the importance of Black women in the struggle for equality in labor relations. While making this series, Catlett was living and studying printmaking in Mexico City; murals there by artists such as Diego Rivera, also a staunch advocate of worker solidarity, were important inspirations for these works.