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Object Details

Photograph by: Devin Allen, American, born 1989
Subject of: Unidentified Child or Children; Unidentified Woman or Women; Freddie Gray, American, 1990 - 2015

Caption: Fighting for the future we must lay the foundation down now ::: #ripfreddiegray #Welovebaltimore ::: #DVNLLN - Devin Allen (@bydvnlln), Instagram, 05/08/2015.
Description: A black-and-white digital photograph by Devin Allen of an unidentified female police officer hugging an unidentified child in Baltimore, Maryland. The uniformed officer stands in the street behind the child, bending down to wrap her hands around the child, with her head resting on the child's right shoulder. She smiles and looks at the camera. The child wears a t-shirt with a printed design obscured by the officer's hands, and also smiles and looks at the camera. In the left background out of focus is another police officer looking at an object in his hands.; 45.75 MB

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Devin Allen

May 8, 2015

Restrictions & Rights: © Devin Allen; Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.

Place captured: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America

See more items in: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
Classification: Photographs and Still Images
Movement: Black Lives Matter

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic: African American; Activism; Children; Communities; Justice; Local and regional; Photography; Police brutality; Race relations; Resistance; U.S. History, 2001-

GUID (Link to Original Record): http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd52f2a20fb-3009-4c9f-aeda-54a48fbb4b56