Demonstrators Stand in Front of Wall of Posters at Kum Nam Kim Demonstration

Title

Demonstrators Stand in Front of Wall of Posters at Kum Nam Kim Demonstration

Description

Two smiling demonstrators—both of whom carry drums— stand with a child in front of a poster-covered wall while attending a rally organized to demand justice for Kum Nam Kim, a Korean street vendor who was beaten and arrested by police on August 3, 1993, after protesting an unfair parking ticket.[1] The posters display a diversity of languages and political messages, with the two English ones at the center of the frame reading, from left to right, "[You Can't] Cover up Anti-Asian Violence, (double brackets added because the full text of this poster appears in another photo cited below]" and "Stop Anti-Asian Violence." [2]

1. “Upper West Side Manhattan”. CAAAV Voice 5, no. 2 (Fall 1993): Newsletter of the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence.
2. “Demonstrators Call for Police Accountability at Kum Nam Kim Demonstration,” CAAAV Digital Archive, accessed October 22, 2024, https://archives.caaav.org/admin/items/show/2447.

Date

October, 1993.

Contributor

Digitized by: Ting Lin

Cataloged by: Terrence Freeman

Rights

Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities.

Format

Photograph

Identifier

Photo018

Files

Photo018.jpg

Citation

“Demonstrators Stand in Front of Wall of Posters at Kum Nam Kim Demonstration ,” CAAAV Digital Archive, accessed November 6, 2024, https://archives.caaav.org/items/show/2458.

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