Archiving Resistance History
Archives & Collections
Archive/Counter-Archive: project on Canadian audiovisual archives created by Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), Black communities and People of Colour, women, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities.
Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research (Columbia University)
Chronicling Resistance (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries)
Freedom Archives: houses over 10, 000 hours of audio and video recordings documenting social justice movements locally, nationally, and internationally, from 1960s to the present
Independent Voices: Open Access Collection of Alternative Press
Interference Archives: archive of social movements in Brooklyn, NY
Joseph A. Labadie Collection on the History of Social Protest Movements and Marginalized Political Communities (University of Michigan)
Radical Archives: NYC conference on "threads of radical archival practice: Archives and Absence, or lost and counter-archives; Archives and Affect, or embodied archives; Archives and Ethics, or stealing from and for archives; and Archive as Constellation, or archive as method, medium, and interface."
Ongoing Projects
Actipedia - "...an open-access, community-generated wiki to document, share, and inspire Creative Activism."
Community-Driven Archives Initiative (Arizona State University)
Protest Matters: a people's museum of material culture from protest actions
Save the Boards (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Guides & Resources
Five Tips: For Documenting Movements and Donating Materials (Blackivists)
How to Archive a Protest: Zine by Margaret Lawson, Invisible Histories Project, 2024. (with Memory Work Activities guide)
Books, Articles, & History
Ford, Ann. "I Will Always Refuse": Civil rights protests in public libraries. americanlibrariesmagazine.org, 1 June 2017.
McCracken, Krista. "Archives as Activism." activehistory.ca, April 10, 2017.
Tansey, Eira. "No One Owes Their Trauma to Archivists, or, The Commodification of Contemporaneous Collecting." http://eiratansey.com/, June 5, 2020.
Taves Sheffield, Rebekah. Documenting Rebellions: A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times. Litwin Books, 2020.
Velte, Ashlyn. "Ethical Challenges and Current Practices in Activist Social Media Archives." The American Archivist, Spring/Summer 2018, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 112-134.
Podcasts & Webinars
Dublin, Thomas, Daniel Lewis, and Kathryn Sklar. "How Does the Past Inform Today?: Key Primary Source Collections for Research in Social Movements." Youtube, uploaded by CHOICE Media Channel, 28 March 2017.