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Collected Item: “Political Activism in the Midst of a Pandemic: BLM March Columbus Circle”

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Political Activism in the Midst of a Pandemic: BLM March Columbus Circle

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Photograph

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A Black Lives Matter Protest is disbanded early due to the city curfew. I left this particular protest at 7pm to get home by 8pm but many people chose to stay. The NYPD started mass arresting groups of people who were out protesting after curfew.

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#Protests #Curfew #NYC #COVID #BLM #FordhamUniversity #SOCI2960 #pandemicsummer

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Greta Weinrich

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2020-06
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