Placard calling for an end to police terror used at protests in Washington, DC: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A picket sign that reads [End Police Terror! / RACISM / is the Disease, / REVOLUTION / is the Cure! / Party for Socialism and Liberation / PSLweb.org]. Text is black and red. The background is red excepting at the bottom, where the background is black. The sign is created by two signs on each side, and then stapling an identical set-up back-to-back with a picket and additional white paper between them.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2014
• Created by: Party for Socialism and Liberation, American, founded 2004
• Subject of: Michael Brown Jr., 1996 - 2014
• Subject of: Eric Garner, 1970 - 2014
• Subject of: Tamir Rice, 2002 - 2014
• Type: picket signs
• Medium: ink on paper with wood
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 47 13/16 × 17 5/16 × 11/16 in. (121.5 × 44 × 1.8 cm)
• Place used: 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: 2015.211.3
• 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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