Museum object · placards (information artifacts)
Poster reading "Race is not a crime" used at Baltimore protests
April 2015
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
This protest poster is white and has text that reads [Race / is not / a crime]. The text is handwritten in black marker and there is a brown stain on the bottom of the poster just left of center. There are no images or text on the back. This placard was used during the Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Catalog date
- April 2015
- Recorded places
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Activism; Civil Rights; Justice; Local and regional; Police brutality; Race relations; Resistance
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: 2016.59.4
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection