Poster reading "Jail Darren Wilson 4 Murder" used at Baltimore protests: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This protest poster demands that Darren Wilson be jailed for the murder of Michael Brown. The poster is made of yellow pieces of paper taped together in the center and stappled to a white poster board.The text is printed in black and reads [Jail / DARREN / WILSON / 4 MURDER / People's Power / Assembly / www.peoplespowerassembly.org / 443-221-3775]. There is a black boarder around the People's Power Assembly's information. The back of the poster is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: April 2015
• Created by: Peoples Power Assemblies, American
• Subject of: Darren Wilson, American, born 1986
• Subject of: Michael Brown Jr., 1996 - 2014
• Type: placards (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper, tape and metal
• Dimensions: H x W: 22 × 17 1/2 in. (55.9 × 44.5 cm)
• Place used: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Ferguson, Saint Louis County, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Police brutality
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Race relations
• Object number: 2016.59.2
• 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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