Handmade sign from a rally after the killing of VonDerrit Myers in St. Louis, MO: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

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.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2014
• Created by: Sarah Griesbach, American
• Subject of: VonDerrit Myers Jr., American, 1996 - 2014
• Type: signs
• Medium: ink, paper and pressure-sensitive tape on Fome-Cor (TM)
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 12 × 35 13/16 × 3/16 in. (30.5 × 91 × 0.5 cm)
• Place used: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Police brutality
• Topic: Race discrimination
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: Resistance
• Object number: 2015.110
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Darian Wigfall and Sarah Griesbach
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Darian Wigfall/Sarah Griesbach Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.