- Created by
- Griesbach, Sarah, American
- Subject of
- VonDerrit Myers Jr., American, 1996 - 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Medium
- ink, paper and pressure-sensitive tape on Fome-Cor (TM)
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 12 × 35 13/16 × 3/16 in. (30.5 × 91 × 0.5 cm)
- Description
- A handmade sign used at a demonstration led by a Unitarian Church in south St. Louis, Missouri located on the corner of Hampton Avenue and Chippewa Street, following the killing of VonDerrit Myers. The white, posterboard sign has text written in blue ink on the front that reads, [RACIST INJUSTICE / HURTS EVERYONE / SPEAK OUT!]. On the back are three photocopied articles related to Larry Fiquette, the former Reader's Advocate columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, that have been affixed to the sign using pieces of clear adhesive tape.
- Place used
- Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
- Movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Type
- signs
- Topic
- Activism
- Communities
- Justice
- Police brutality
- Race discrimination
- Race relations
- Resistance
- U.S. History, 2001-
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Darian Wigfall and Sarah Griesbach
- Object number
- 2015.110
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Darian Wigfall/Sarah Griesbach
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




