Placard with BE MORE BALTIMORE slogan: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Placard of heavy cardstock bearing "BE MORE BALTIMORE" slogan. Placard is white with broad red stripe down middle, leaving white only at left and right margins. Over the red and white background is the slogan text in black block letters. On the back at top left is an orange stamp with text reading [Made in Baltimore / by your friends from Globe Collection / and Press at MICA! / @globeatmica]

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2015
• Printed by: Globe Collection and Press at MICA, founded 2011
• Subject of: Freddie Gray, American, 1990 - 2015
• Type: placards (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 13 × 20 in. (33 × 50.8 cm)
• Place collected: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Police brutality
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Object number: 2015.163.1
• 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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