Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of three reporter’s notebooks, provided by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to staff, and papers torn from a similar notebook filled with notes taken by reporter Lisa Brown relating to the aftermath of the fatal shooting of unarmed Michael Brown, Jr. by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer on 9 August 2014. The notebooks date from August to December 2014 and 9 August 2015. One notebook, dated 24 November 2014, is available as a digital...

Scope and Contents The collection is arranged chronologically and consists of three items relating to the death of Michael Brown and the subsequent social movement that developed in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. There is an Order of Service for Brown’s funeral held at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church on 25 August 2014. The Organization for Black Struggle issued a card with two messages. One message begins, “Justice for Mike Brown and his Family! OBS supports the demands of the Ferguson...

Scope and Contents The Lawrence Bryant Collection documents a growing movement protesting police violence, spurred by the shooting of African American teenager Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. The bulk of the collection shows the protests and unrest in Ferguson and surrounding areas following Brown’s death on August 9, 2014 and the announcement on November 24th of the Grand Jury’s decision not to indict Officer Wilson. Photographs show peaceful demonstrations and...

Scope and Contents The small collection includes four items arranged chronologically. There is a biography of Gerumba; a promotional card for the FV Art Faculty Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley; and a promotional card and program for Hands Up, Don’t’Shoot: Artists Respond, Alliance of Black Art Galleries. The Hands Up, Don’t Shoot exhibition was presented by the Alliance of...

Scope and Contents The collection contains charred papers salvaged from Juanita Morris’s Fashion R Boutique building located at 9844 West Florissant Road by staff members of the Missouri Historical Society in January 2015. The papers represent the broad effect of the upheaval surrounding the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr. and the subsequent civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, and nearby municipalities. Due to the fragility of the items, they are housed in special boxes which allow...

Scope and Contents The collection contains four items collected at the ceremony in which Gov. Jay Nixon signed an executive order creating the Ferguson Commission. It includes the five page press release listing the 16 members of the Commission, its task, its budget, and two pages of frequently asked questions. There is a program for the Ferguson Commission with photographs and brief biographies of all 16 members and the pen that Gov. Nixon used to sign the executive order. After the ceremony, Gov. Nixon...

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The program for "Living #Ferguson 5 Years After the Death of Michael Brown, Jr.: A Storytelling Event" is dated August 8, 2019. It contains brief biographies of the five storytellers and the two presenters.

Scope and Contents The collection is arranged chronologically and is comprised of literature and publications made available to protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, and to activists who observed police actions and who continued to work for social justice in 2014 and 2015. This includes information sheets, a poster, a newspaper, events flyers, pocket brochures, and one candidate flyer for the St. Louis County Executive. There is a page entitled, “Points of discipline for people’s patrols to stop...