Poster reading "WE ARE ALL TRAYVON MARTIN!" used at Baltimore protests: Museum Object and Cultural History
Poster reading "WE ARE ALL TRAYVON MARTIN!" used at Baltimore protests: Date: March 2012. Created by: Justice-4-Trayvon Martin, Maryland Local Organizing Committee, American, 2012 - 2012. Subject of: Trayvon Martin, American, 1995 - 2012.
The object in the museum catalogue
This protest poster demands justice for Trayvon Martin. The poster is white but has an ink- printed yellow background. The alternating red and black text reads [WE ARE / ALL / TRAYVON / MARTIN! / Justice-4-Trayvon.org / Baltimore & Maryland LOC / CALL: 443-469-7265]. A photograph of Martin in a hoodie is in the top right corner of the poster. The back of the poster is blank.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: March 2012
- Created by: Justice-4-Trayvon Martin, Maryland Local Organizing Committee, American, 2012 - 2012
- Subject of: Trayvon Martin, American, 1995 - 2012
- Type: placards (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 22 × 17 1/4 in. (55.9 × 43.8 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: Race relations
- Topic: Resistance
- Object number: 2016.59.6
- 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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