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Placard with "Stop the War on Black America" used at protests in Washington, DC

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This sign was carried at Black Lives Matter protests between August and December 2014 in Washington, DC, including demonstrations for Mike Brown on August 23, 2014, Eric Garner on December 3, 2014, and Tamir Rice on December 13, 2014.A picket sign that reads [STOP / The WAR / on BLACK / AMERICA / ANSWER Coalition / AnswerCoalition.org]. Text is black and yellow. The background is yellow excepting at the bottom, where the background is black. The sign is created by stapling two identical posters back-to-back with a picket and additional white paper between them.
Format:
Ink On Paper With Wood
Rights:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Eugene Puryear
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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. Act Now To Stop War And End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.)
  2. Activism
  3. African American
  4. African Americans
  5. Black Lives Matter
  6. Brown, Michael
  7. Garner, Eric
  8. Justice
  9. Local And Regional
  10. Politics
  11. Resistance
  12. Rice, Tamir Elijah
  13. U.S. History, 2001

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