There is an image of the Memorial Fence and the Washington Monument behind it and there is a bike, chairs, coolers, and bags that are in front of the fence. People are in front of the fence and one is holding a poster protesting. Multiple posters read “Stop Killing Us” “Pay A Black Woman Today” “Black Lives Matter” “Resist “We are the Majority” “Black Trans Lives Matter” “Trump Is A Danger To Us All” “White silence Fuels Domestic [illegible]” “#DefundMPD EndSARS” “Fuck Your Fence” “Join Campaign Zero” “#Say Their Names” “Jesus knows Black Lives Need More Than Thoughts & Prayers”. There is also a Mexican flag hanging from the stoplight

A poster reads “Baby Trump, Your’e [sic] coming out of the Whitehouse [sic] Don’t forget first Vice President KAMALA Harris And President Biden is coming”

Multiple posters read “Young Black Lives Old Black Lives Gay Black Lives Trans Black Lives Non-Binary Black Lives Matter” and “Diversity Is The Future” “Black Trans Lives Matter” “Is anyone really surprised that DONALD TRUMP is trying to force himself on America after she said no!” “Abolition requires that we CHANGE one thing which is EVERYTHING” “Thank You Stacey Abrams and Black Voters Everywhere” “Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend did not shoot at police…..he shot at someone trying to break into his home” “57% of white people STILL voted for Trump ?!?!?!?!” “We Can’t Repeal Our Pre-Existing Conditions” “11/06/2020 You’re Fired! Get out of MY House!” “Reclaiming The People’s House” “Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere” “We DUMPed [sic] TRUMP!” “You Will Never Get Away With This” “Person Woman Man VOTE Biden Harris” “Mitch Don’t Forget Essential Workers” “Thank You Jim Clyburn Stacy Abrams! African Americans saved this country Again! Thank you!”

There is a poster with the black power fist on it and a rainbow drawn on the top right corner and a gold heart in the fist and it reads “All lives can’t matter until black’s minorily [sic] lives matter too ! Black Lives Matter [;] It takes more eff[illegible]”

A poster has a spray-painted image of a red rose on it and written over it reads “We’re all in this together ! Vote. Vote. Vote!! The Duty of a True Patriot is to Protect County from it’s Government!”

There is a green poster that has a silver spray-painted pyramid on it and a red spray-painted eye on top of it which seems to represent the Illuminati.

A poster reads “This Daughter of an Immigrant Dyke Voted Your White Supremacist Ass Out” and the word “dyke” is filled in with rainbow colors.

There is a poster that has a portrait of a black woman without a face and there is a thought bubble that reads “#SayHerName” and behind the portrait are names of women who died because of police brutality. Some names that are able to be seen read “Tanisha Anderson [illegible]arleena Lyles[;] Sandra [;] McKenna P[illegible] Turner [illegible] Gabriella [;] Miriam Carey [;] Shelly Frey [;] Malissa [illegible] [;] Shantel Davis [;] [illegible] [;] Sherese Fra[illegible] [;] Breonna Taylor”

A poster has an image of two hands reaching out to each other and it reads “Stop Separating Families #AbolishICE [;] What if it was your family?”

A poster reads “Sin Justicia No Habra Paz which translates into “Without Justice, there will not be Peace” and there is a drawing of a police car that is on fire.

A poster reads in Russian “в отставку Трамп Resign!” which translates to “Resign Trump Resign”
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Activist Nadine Seiler played a crucial role in protecting and caring for the fence, along with Karen Irwin and other activists in a loosely-formed group informally known as the "Guardians of the Fence." Nadine Seiler and Aliza Leventhal systematically documented the fence over the course of months, and Seiler became the de facto curator of the fence.

Additional information:

Library of Congress blog post "Protest Preserved: Signs from D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence"

D.C. Public Library Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection”
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There is a poster that has a black power fist with pink, blue, green, and purple and reads “Trans Gay Nonbinary Immigrant Disabled Neurodivergent Mothers Fathers Elderly Afro-Latinx Children [;] Black Lives will always Matter! Love Trumps Hate”

There is an image of a fence that only has two posters on it and it reads ‘Democracy is Stronger Than Trump” and "Trump Hates Democracy” but there are zip ties on the fence that show there were other posters or items attached to the fence previously. There is a doily-like collar to represent Ruth Bader Ginsberg as this is similar to the lace collar that she wore while she was on the United States Supreme Court.

There is an origami bird on the ground in front of the fence and the posters read “people build peace” “We See Another Black Man Murdered” “Black Trans Lives Matter”
There is a photograph of Tamir Rice and it’s within a plastic cover and it reads “Tamir Rice Nov 22, 2014 [;] Rest In Power”.

There is a photograph of Sheneque Proctor and it’s within a plastic cover and it reads “Sheneque Proctor Nov 1, 2014. There is an image of Greg Hill Jr on a poster that is a memorial poster and it reads “Never Forget [;] Greg Hill Jr [;] Sunrise 10-28-83 [;] Sunset 01-14-14 [;] Celebrating LIFE the day you past away” There are other posters that read “#SayHerName”.

There is an image of Mussolini and Donald Trump’s head has replaced Mussolini’s and it reads “Dimestore Mussolini? [;] Concerned.” And there are words spraypainted on the poster that reads “Toxic Loser”
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Activist Nadine Seiler played a crucial role in protecting and caring for the fence, along with Karen Irwin and other activists in a loosely-formed group informally known as the "Guardians of the Fence." Nadine Seiler and Aliza Leventhal systematically documented the fence over the course of months, and Seiler became the de facto curator of the fence.

Additional information:

Library of Congress blog post "Protest Preserved: Signs from D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence"

D.C. Public Library Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection”
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There are three posters that are outlines of people who have lost their lives to police violence and they reads, “Riah Milton 25 y/o Liberty Township, OH”, “Nigel Shelby 15 y/o Huntsville, AL” and “Robert Fuller 24 y/o Palmoale, CA”. Next to these posters is a cardboard poster that reads “Pro-Life? But you're against Black lives. Pro-Life? But you're against immigrants. Pro-life? But you're against Medicare For All. Pro-life? But you're against woman's health. You are not Pro-Life you are Pro-Birth.”

There is a poster that reads “Abolish the Patriarchy” and underneath this is a small note card that reads “Eviction Notice, Name: Donald Trump, Address: 1600 Black Lives Matter Plaza, Date January 20th, 2021 (Inauguration Day)”

There is a landscape view of a section of the fence that has a tapestry with black spray paint that reads “Black Lives Matter” and multiple posters of those who have lost their lives to police brutality as well as little flags that spell out “Defend Black...”

This is a shot of the fence and there is tape on it that reads “FUCK 12” and has two posters on it. One reads “Justice 4 DeonKay”. There is another poster with multiple names which reads “Karon Hylton DeonKay Dquan Young Marquese A[_]ton Jeffrey Price Eric Carter Isabel[__] Marquesha McMillan Sherman Evans Devonne Harris Peter John Terrance Sterling Bobby Gross Gerald Hall; We Remember” and underneath is a small poster that reads “I am a Black Man Not a Target” with the word “target” being outlined in red as well as a drawing of a target.]]>

Activist Nadine Seiler played a crucial role in protecting and caring for the fence, along with Karen Irwin and other activists in a loosely-formed group informally known as the "Guardians of the Fence." Nadine Seiler and Aliza Leventhal systematically documented the fence over the course of months, and Seiler became the de facto curator of the fence.

Additional information:

Library of Congress blog post "Protest Preserved: Signs from D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence"

D.C. Public Library Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection”
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