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)
Statement on Ethical Acquisition of Campus Protest Materials (Society of American Archivists, Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct, June 5, 2024)
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.