Placard reading "Justice 4 Trayvon": Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A white placard with white string attached to the top. The placard has white paper with black text adhered to it. The placard reads: [Justice 4 / Trayvon / Racial / Profiling / Kills / Innocents]. At the center of the placard is a black and white picture of Trayvon Martin wearing a hooded sweatshirt.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2013
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Trayvon Martin, American, 1995 - 2012
• Type: placards (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper, adhesive, string, poster board
• Dimensions: 18 x 12 x 1/4 in. (45.7 x 30.5 x 0.6 cm)
• Place collected: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Race discrimination
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Object number: 2013.123.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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