Fliers for a march in memory of Mike Brown in Washington, DC: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Three fliers promoting a march from Mount Vernon Square to Chinatown in memory of Mike Brown. The flier is black-and-white and reads [March to China Town for Mike Brown / RALLY BEGINS AT MT. VERNON SQUARE, WASHINGTON, DC / Saturday, August 23rd [7PM]] and depicts a crowd of people holding up signs, fists, and hands in the "hands up don't shoot" gesture. The march was sponsored by The Answer Coalition, National Black United Front, We Act Radio, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2014
• Created by: National Black United Front, American, founded 1970s
• Subject of: Michael Brown Jr., 1996 - 2014
• Subject of: Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.), American, founded 2001
• Subject of: Party for Socialism and Liberation, American, founded 2004
• Subject of: We Act Radio, American, founded 2012
• Type: fliers (printed matter)
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/2 × 11 in. (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
• Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Police brutality
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Resistance
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Object number: 2015.211.4.1-.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Eugene Puryear
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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