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date: label: Date
content: June 6, 2020
name: label: Photograph by
content: Tommy Oliver, American, born 1984
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
label: Subject of
content: George Perry Floyd Jr., American, 1973 - 2020
label: Subject of
content: University of Southern California, founded 1880
notes: label: Caption
content: Photographer Tommy Oliver is an award-winning producer and cinematographer in television and film. Best known for his 2020 documentary 40 Years a Prisoner on HBO, his docuseries Black Love (2017–2020) on OWN, and his feature film The Perfect Guy (2015), Oliver challenges audiences to question their assumptions about race, gender, and family. The film Kinyarwanda (2011), which Oliver co-produced, weaves together narratives of resilience during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It won the Sundance Film Festival’s award for World Cinema Drama and was recognized as one of the top 10 films of 2011. This photograph is part of a broader portfolio of images taken during Black Lives Matter rallies in Los Angeles between May 31 and June 14, 2020.
label: Description
content: A digital, black-and-white image of two unidentified female protesters participating in a Black Lives Matter protest in Century City, California. The image was taken by Tommy Oliver during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. The two women are standing at the front of a large group of protesters, holding protest signs in front of their torsos. Both women are depicted from the waists up, with their bodies turned slightly towards the left edge of the photograph. The woman on the left is holding a white sign with dark handwritten text that reads [I AM NOT BLACK / BUT I SEE Y[OU?] / I AM NOT BLACK / BUT / HEA[R YOU?] / I AM NOT BLACK / BUT I WILL STAND W/ [YOU?]]. She is wearing a black face mask over her nose and mouth, a black tank top, dark aviator-style sunglasses, and a black baseball-style cap with a white [adidas] logo on the front of the crown. Her hands are cradling the bottom edge of her sign. The woman on the right is holding a white protest sign with black handwritten text that reads [Black lives Matter / Black BODiES Matter / Black CHIL- / DREN / MATTER / Black love MAT- / TERS / Black ART MATTERS / Black Dreams MATTE[R/] / [Bla]ck Future [MATTER?]]. She is wearing a black face mask over her nose and mouth, a long sleeve jean shirts with rolled up sleeves, dark aviator-style sunglasses; and a dark baseball-style cap with white outline text on the front of the crown that reads [USC]. Her hands are wrapped around the front bottom corners of her sign. The women are surrounded by other protesters, many of whom are wearing face masks, or other types of protective face coverings, and carrying protest signs.
place: label: Place captured
content: Century City, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
title: label: Title
content: Photograph of protesters at a Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Police brutality
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Resistance
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 2001-
label: Topic
content: Urban life
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Black Lives Matter
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Tommy and Codie Oliver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.31.53
objectType: label: Type
content: digital images
label: Type
content: digital media - born digital
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Tommy Oliver
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: digital
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 4480 pixels × 6720 pixels
label: Dimensions
content: File size: 172.3 MB