Placard reading "youth are not thugs": Museum Object and Cultural History
Placard reading "youth are not thugs": Date: April 18, 2015- May 3, 2015. Created by: Peoples Power Assemblies, American. Subject of: Freddie Gray, American, 1990 - 2015.
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This placard states that Baltimore's youth are not thugs and demands justice for Freddie Gray. One side of the placard consists of green paper stapled to white poster board. The black text is typed and reads [Baltimore's / YOUTH ARE / NOT THUGS, / Amnesty 4 / ARRESTS / PEOPLES POWER ASSEMBLY / 443-221-3775]. The other side of the placard consists of white paper stapled to a white poster board. An image of Gray in a red t- shirt covers the entire placard. Printed text at the bottom half of reads [JUSTICE / FOR / FREDDIE GREY / Peoples Power Assembly / 443.221.3775 / Labor donated / -15/1/15].
The paper is weather worn and the corners are bent. The entire wooden handle is covered in masking tape. This placard was used during the Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore, Maryland.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: April 18, 2015- May 3, 2015
- Created by: Peoples Power Assemblies, American
- Subject of: Freddie Gray, American, 1990 - 2015
- Type: placards (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper (fiber product) and masking tape on wood
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 47 1/2 × 17 1/2 × 1/4 in. (120.7 × 44.5 × 0.6 cm)
- Place used: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Justice
- Topic: Local and regional
- Topic: Police brutality
- Topic: Race relations
- Object number: 2016.59.12
- 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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