Title

Michael Brown Memorial at the Ferguson Community Empowerment Center

Description

This item include three photos: one of the front of Ferguson Community Empowerment Center; a second of a wide photo of the Michael Brown memorial bench at this site; and a third of a close-up of the plaque under the bench.

The plaque reads: Michael O.D. Brown, May 20, 1996-August 9, 2014
This bench and the decorative concrete base commemorate the social justice chance and movement towards a more just society that came about after his death. The base contains pieces of his memorial in the Canfield Green Apartments Complex brought by people from all over the world.

Creator

Lauren Obermark

Subject

Michael Brown Memorial

Ferguson Community Empowerment Center

Black Power

Activism

Community Memory

Remembrance

Race Relations

Black Lives Matter Movement

Spatial Coverage

9420 W Florissant Ave, St. Louis, MO 63136

Type

Photographs of the memorial site

Date

Photographs take in September of 2020; memorial established July 26, 2017, when the center opened.

Format

three photos; jpg files

Publisher

Lauren Obermark