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Collected Item: “Spray Paint on the wood boarding up stores on Fordham Road”

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Spray Paint on the wood boarding up stores on Fordham Road

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Photograph

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The Spray paint on the boarding wood exemplifies the movement behind the June Protests and shows the creativity of protesters using a canvas created to supposedly protect the store from the looters hidden among the protestors.

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https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/06/05/fordham-road-hit-hard-by-looters-amid-george-floyd-protest-unrest-across-nyc-

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Amy Yensi

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2020-06-02
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