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 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 collection contains a four-page (typed) reminiscence entitled "Memoirs of the Hippy Era" written by Leeman Hackworth about his experiences with the Ferguson, Missouri, police department in the late 1960s and 1970s. The memoir focuses on teen activities centered around Wabash Park during the hippy/anti-war era, circa 1969. Hackworth remembers teens and pre-teens using marijuana, alcohol, and other drugs in the area. Some runaways explained that Ferguson’s Wabash Park was...

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...

Scope and Contents The Richard Reilly Social Protest Photograph Collection contains photographs documenting a wide range of protests related to social justice, racial equality, LGBTQ rights, and improving conditions for the poor. The bulk of the collection deals with issues of racial justice and police violence, including sustained protests following the shooting death of Michael Brown; the acquittal of St. Louis Police Officer Jason Stockley in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith; and the death of...