- Photograph by
- Oliver, Tommy, American, born 1984
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Floyd, George Perry Jr., American, 1973 - 2020
- Lacey, Jackie, American, born 1957
- Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles, American, founded 2013
- Date
- June 3, 2020
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- H x W: 4022 pixels × 2914 pixels
- File size: 67.1 MB
- Caption
- Photographer Tommy Oliver is an award-winning producer and cinematographer in television and film. Best known for his 2020 documentary 40 Years a Prisoner on HBO, his docuseries Black Love (2017–2020) on OWN, and his feature film The Perfect Guy (2015), Oliver challenges audiences to question their assumptions about race, gender, and family. The film Kinyarwanda (2011), which Oliver co-produced, weaves together narratives of resilience during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It won the Sundance Film Festival’s award for World Cinema Drama and was recognized as one of the top 10 films of 2011. This photograph is part of a broader portfolio of images taken during Black Lives Matter rallies in Los Angeles between May 31 and June 14, 2020.
- Description
- A digital, color image of an unidentified female protester in the center of a crowd of protesters at a Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles protest against District Attorney Jackie Lacey in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The image was taken by Tommy Oliver during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. The image depicts the woman in the center of a crowd of protesters, holding a protest sign above her head with her proper right hand. The sign is white with red and black text that reads [STOP TRAINING / RACISM / START ROOTING / IT OUT! / STOP THE / KKKOPS!]. The woman is visible from the shoulders up and is wearing a light gray T-shirt; a black face mask with a white rectangular patch at the center with black text that reads [BLM]; aqua blue peace symbol earrings; and a black, baseball-style cap with a white field at the center of the crown and black text that reads [BLACKNESS T[—-?]]. She is surrounded by a group of tightly packed, blurred protesters, many of whom are wearing face masks, respirators, or other types of protective face coverings.
- Place captured
- Downtown LA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Type
- digital images
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- Justice
- Photography
- Police brutality
- Race relations
- Resistance
- U.S. History, 2001-
- Urban life
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Tommy and Codie Oliver
- Object number
- 2021.31.22
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Tommy Oliver
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




