T-shirt featuring Black Lives Matter graphic
- On View
- 1968 & Beyond Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Brown, Michael Jr., 1996 - 2014
- Martin, Trayvon, American, 1995 - 2012
- Tamir Rice, 2002 - 2014
- Garner, Eric, 1970 - 2014
- Akai Gurley, 1986 - 2014
- Date
- 2014
- 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
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
- Clothing - Fashion and Historical
- Movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Type
- t-shirts
- Topic
- Activism
- Children
- Civil rights
- Clothing and dress
- Justice
- Local and regional
- Men
- Police brutality
- 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
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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