More than 1,500 artifacts from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence were saved and are now accessible in the D.C. Public Library’s online archive.
“There was no way I thought it would still be in existence,” said Gould, a 45-year-old artist from Jersey City. “It’s just an amazing feeling that people are going to be able to interact with it, share it, put it on their screen savers or something. It’s out there for the world to enjoy.”
The new online archive is the most comprehensive look yet at the ways the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence became an art gallery of resistance, representing the outpouring of grief and anger among thousands of people in D.C. protesting racism and police brutality.The artifacts trumpeted a range of causes, including
many declarations of “Black Lives Matter” on posters, a shield, a flag, face masks and photos of people who were killed by police. There were also signs demanding that leaders cancel rent, “count every vote” and defend democracy; signs with obscenities about the Proud Boys, a far-right group with a history of violence; and signs advocating for other social justice and human rights issues.feature the names of 373 people, most of whom were victims of police brutality, said Laura Farley, a digital curation librarian at the D.C. Public Library. They feature more than a dozen languages, too, including Arabic, German, French, Haitian Creole, Croatian, Lakota, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and Urdu.
“The fence was the outlet for Black people to feel their anger, their frustration, their love, their aspirations for us as a people, for when finally people would see us with some humanity,” saidOn June 1, 2020, law enforcement officers
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