Posters with STOP MURDER BY POLICE message: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Three black-and-white political posters with photographs and names of 44 people killed by law enforcement, as well as their death dates. Text at the top of the poster reads [TUESDAY / APRIL 14 / #ShutDownA14] at left and [STOP / MURDER BY POLICE] at right. Text at the bottom left reads [These are some of the thousands killed by police nationwide] and at bottom right reads [www.revcom.us\]. There are no marks or text on the back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2015
• Created by: Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, American, founded 1975
• Subject of: Freddie Gray, American, 1990 - 2015
• Type: political posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 17 1/2 × 23 in. (44.5 × 58.4 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-
• Topic: Violence
• Object number: 2015.163.4.1-.3
• 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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