teddy bear
date: label: date made
content: 1999
name: label: Associated Name
content: Shepard, Matthew
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Matthew Shepard was a college student, targeted for being gay, robbed, and brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Shepard's murder affected people around the world in a range of ways. Two men from Denver organized a Teddy Bear Project, in which people created bears in memory of victims of hate or violence. The Bear Foundation (Bringing Equality and Respect) was in Littleton, Colorado. The men hiked from Fort Collins to the fence where Shepard was tortured and left to die and left 150 Teddy Bears. Later, this bear along with the others toured as an educational project.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This bear, named "Jerry Bear," came from Kristie Bonner in Lincoln Park, Michigan. Jerry Bear is named for the son of a woman she met outside a grocery store from the group "Parents of Murdered Children, Inc."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dennis and Judy Shepard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0004.24
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0004.24
label: accession number
content: 2019.0004
label: collector/donor number
content: 55
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teddy bear
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric; plastic; wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 4 1/4 in x 2 in; 12.7 cm x 10.795 cm x 5.08 cm