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  • T-shirt featuring Black Lives Matter graphic

    Created by
    Unidentified
    Subject of
    Brown, Michael Jr., 1996 - 2014
    Trayvon Martin, American, 1995 - 2012
    Tamir Rice, 2002 - 2014
    Garner, Eric, 1970 - 2014
    Akai Gurley, 1986 - 2014
    Date
    2014
    On View
    Concourse 1, C1 053
    Exhibition
    A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond
    Medium
    cotton (textile)
    Dimensions
    H x W: 35 × 29 in. (88.9 × 73.7 cm)
    Description
    A t-shirt featuring a graphic on the front that reads "Black / Lives / Matter / In America 2014" over the image of a bullet hole in glass. The back displays several slogans associated with the Black Lives Matter movement: "BlackLivesMatter / In America," "I / CAN'T / BREATHE," "HANDS / UP, DON'T / SHOOT," and "No / Justice / No / Peace." The "Hands up, don't shoot" lettering makes up the torso of a silhouetted figure with hands in the air. Beneath the slogans are the names of African Americans who were killed while unarmed: "MICHAEL BROWN / ERIC GARNER / TAMIR RICE / AKAI GURLEY / TRAYVON MARTIN / AND OTHERS..."
    Place collected
    Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
    Classification
    Clothing-Historical
    Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera
    Movement
    Black Lives Matter
    Type
    T-shirts
    Topic
    Activism
    Children
    Civil rights
    Clothing and dress
    Justice
    Local and regional
    Men
    Race discrimination
    Race relations
    U.S. History, 2001-
    Violence
    Credit Line
    Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Harriet G. McCombs
    Object number
    2015.136.3
    Restrictions & Rights
    No Known Copyright Restrictions
    Usage
    Not determined
    GUID
    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd526e0968e-25cd-4fa4-9afe-15f82065a5db
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