Poster reading "Solidarity" used at Ferguson protests: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This protest poster calls for solidarity and an end to police brutality. The placard consists of yellow paper stapled to several pieces of paper and poster boards. Newspaper clippings are glued on top of the yellow paper and read [Ferguson], [Fight for system change!], [Michael Brown], [capitalism], [police brutality], ['We know who is to blame']. Pictures of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin are also glued to the paper. The word [SOLIDARITY] is handwritten on a peice of white paper that is glued at the bottom of the poster.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: October 2014
• Created by: Sara Benjamin, American, born 1991
• Subject of: Freddie Gray, American, 1990 - 2015
• Subject of: Trayvon Martin, American, 1995 - 2012
• Subject of: Michael Brown Jr., 1996 - 2014
• Type: placards (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal
• Dimensions: H x W: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)
• Place used: Ferguson, Saint Louis County, Missouri, 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: 2016.59.3
• 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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