Title

Handmade Sign from a Rally After the Killing of VonDerrit Myers in St. Louis, MO

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.

Creator

Sarah Griesbach

Subject

Black Lives Matter

Activism

African Americans

St. Louis History

Medium

ink, paper and pressure-sensitive tape on Fome-Cor (TM)

Date

2014

Source

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Identifier

2015.110