Trans and Anti-Police Brutality Posters from the Ferguson protest and riots.

Trans and Anti-Police Brutality Posters from the Ferguson protest and riots.

Photographer's caption continues: Black trans person playing a flute in front of the Ferguson Police Department during a protest against police brutality. Ferguson, Missouri is where the Ferguson Uprising transpired after Mike Brown was killed by a Ferguson police officer in 2014.

Posters were removed from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, an installation of protest art attached to a chain link fence outside of the White House, Washington, D.C, from June 2020 through January 2021, responding to the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and other instances of police brutality against African Americans; other issues addressed by posters on the fence include institutional injustices, political protest, frustration and mourning related to COVID-19, and international solidarity.

Poster donated to the Library of Congress.
Forms part of: [Posters from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence in Washington, D.C.].
Gift; Nadine Seiler & Karen Irwin on behalf of the BLM community; 2021; (DLC/PP-2021:011).

Image at the LOC by Vanessa Charlot
LC-DIG-ppbd- 01250 (ONLINE) [P&P]

LOC Call numbers:

Black Trans Protestor Playing Flute, September 26, 2020
LOT 15471, no. 17 (H) [P&P]

Black Trans Protest Poster, 2020 or 2021
LOT 15471, no. 29 (OSE) [P&P]

Poster featuring Michael Jackson's words, 2020 0r 2021
LC-DIG-ppbd- 01250 (ONLINE) [P&P]

Love is love poster, 2020 or 2021
LOT 15471, no. 15 (H) [P&P]