Placard reading "Baltimore: An Uprising not a Riot!" used at Baltimore protests: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This placard states that the balitmore protests are a uprising, not riots. The placard consists of several pieces of white paper stappled together. One side of the placard reads [Baltimore: / AN UPRISING! / Not a Riot! / People's Power Assembly /peoplespower.net]. An image of a young man shouting at police is placed in between "Baltimore" and "an uprising." The other side of the placard features an image of Freddie Gray in a red t-shirt at the top and reads [AN UPRISING! / Not a Riot! / People's Power Assemlby / peoplespower.net].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: April 2015
• Created by: Peoples Power Assemblies, American
• Subject of: Freddie Gray, American, 1990 - 2015
• Type: placards (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal, cardboard
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 55 × 17 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (139.7 × 43.8 × 3.2 cm)
• Place used: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Police brutality
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: Resistance
• Object number: 2016.59.9
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Sharon Marie Black
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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