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George Floyd Protest Sign Item Info
- Title:
- George Floyd Protest Sign
- Date Created:
- 2020-06-02
- Time Period:
- 2020s
- Description:
- White cardstock sign. "Black lives matter. Black children matter. Black love matters. BLACK FUTURES matter." handwritten in black ink at anterior. One of three such posters taped to lightposts at the intersections of Washington and W Park and Washington and W 4th in Waterloo, Iowa, before the George Floyd protest march of the night of 6/2-6/3/2020. The March began at the Black Hawk Co. Jail and was ultimately broken up by the Waterloo Police Department in Washington Park and on the 218 overpass. Grout Museum District staff collected the signs after they blew down in a storm on 6/5/2020.
- Subject (Topic):
- Social movements Civil rights Civil rights movements Civil rights demonstrations African Americans--Politics and government Visual communication Art Protest movements Police brutality African American police Black lives matter movement African American political activists Political posters African Americans--Violence against
- Subject (Person):
- Floyd, George, 1973-2020
- Location:
- Iowa--Waterloo
- Latitude:
- 42.49583
- Longitude:
- -92.3428
- Language:
- eng;zxx
- Source:
- Grout Museum District 2020 George Floyd Protests
- Contributing Institution:
- Grout Museum District
- Extent:
- 1 object
- Genre:
- posters
- Type:
- Text Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Digital Collection Title:
- Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa
- Digital Collection Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9156m
- Digital Object Identifier:
- gmd2020037001001
- Item Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9zp3w74v
- Metadata License:
- This metadata record is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source
- Suggested Citation:
- "George Floyd Protest Sign", Grout Museum District, Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9zp3w74v
Rights
- Rights:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/