Black Lives Matter Rally: Protester sitting down while holding a sign with a quote from Angela Davis, Westlake Park, Seattle, Washington, April 15, 2017

Black Lives Matter Rally: Protester sitting down while holding a sign with a quote from Angela Davis, Westlake Park, Seattle, Washington, April 15, 2017

Gerhard, John

4/15/17

Text on sign reads: "Power concedes nothing without a demand - Frederick Douglass"; "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. - Angela Davis. Black Lives Matter [with a raised fist on a black background]". Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. PH Coll 1490.GerhardJ2 On Saturday, April 15, 2017, Seattle Black Lives Matter held a march in downtown Seattle, called BlackLivesMatter 2.0 March. The march began at Westlake Center and ended at the U.S. District Courthouse at 700 Stewart Street, in downtown Seattle. Participants were encouraged to wear black knitted hats to show their rejection of discrimination. Organizers included Mohawk Kuzma (also known as Miles Partman) and Jessica Owens. Organizers estimate that around 7,000 people participated in the march. The Black Lives Matter movement was founded by Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza in July 2013. The movement was created after the murder of 17-year old Trayvon Martin and the subsequent failure of the judicial system to hold his killer, George Zimmerman, accountable for his crime. According to organizers, “Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise. It is an affirmation of Black folks’ contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.”

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