A handful of drivers honk their car horns as a group of older adults holding signs and flags reading “Black Lives Matter” march down Park Boulevard through University Heights.
From left, Mannie Garza, Susan Gionet, Dian Schaffhauser, Kit Gateley, Doug B, Cynthia Rich and Bettina Heitmann walk down Park Boulevard in front of the Diversionary Theatre during their silent Black Lives Matter protest on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Before their demonstrations, they read the names and outcomes of people who have been killed by police, and after, they sit in Trolley Barn Park to reflect on that day’s walk.Black Lives Matter was founded in 2013 by three Black women — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi — after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black boy, as he was walking home in 2012.
Kit Gateley, right, sits at a picnic table with Dian Schaffhauser while reflecting on the experience of walking with the silent Black Lives Matter protesters on Sept. 16. At just 16 years old, Mannie Garza, now 80, spent her Saturdays picketing outside the Woolworth department store in Cambridge, Mass., in solidarity with the four Black college students who were denied service at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
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