{"id":4929,"date":"2022-10-17T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:06","slug":"blm-memorial-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2022\/10\/17\/blm-memorial-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM memorial fence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigdc.dclibrary.org%2Fislandora%2Fobject%2Fdcplislandora%253A337948&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C44c011ead522431b54b208daadca455c%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638013381517520696%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=3epBJKieNM%2BP7ZWkHKcTanziV8t75KHt7SYaqugeJMg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">The Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note: this resource contains strong language and references to brutality and violence.<\/strong><br>An open-access digital collection created by T DC Public Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library, The Library of Congress, and Howard University.  It is preserving images,&nbsp;posters, banners, clothing, photographs, and ephemeral objects which were hung on a Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence (BLM Fence) surrounding Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. from June 2020 to January 2021. <br>According to the website \u2018The artifacts were attached to the fence to protest the treatment of Black and Brown communities by police and address various social issues, including racism, LGBTQIA+ rights, women&#8217;s rights, immigration, international human rights violations, nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, the 2020 presidential campaign, politicians, and elections&#8217;. <br>Activists turned the fence into a memorial, an art project, and an outpouring of grief.&nbsp; The nature of the language used expresses the frustration, fear and sorrow felt by participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection&nbsp; Note: this resource contains strong language and references to brutality and violence.An open-access digital collection created by T DC Public Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library, The Library of Congress, and Howard University. It is preserving images,&nbsp;posters, banners, clothing, photographs, and ephemeral objects which were hung on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,755,728,13,15,303],"tags":[754,514,257,75,108,95,99],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-education","category-history-of-art","category-museum-studies","category-politics","category-sociology","category-us-politics","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-lgbtq","tag-police","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-usa","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}