Community | Archives
The IMLS-grant funded Diversifying the Digital Historical Record project is hosting a series of forums focused on integrating community archives in the National Digital Platform. A diverse group of community archives curators and practitioners, community members, scholars, and digital collections leaders will gather to discuss broader inclusion of these materials in national digital collections. Project outcomes include a summary white paper providing recommendations for increased representation of marginalized communities and people in our digital cultural heritage. If you'd like to participate in the conversation, please add your organization to this crowdsourced list of community archives and projects.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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Anacostia Unmapped provides digital recorders to residents of Anacostia to interview people in their own community. Stories from these citizen journalists appear on WAMU 88.5 and The Kojo Nnamdi Show.
The DC Digital Museum is a substantial collection of community heritage projects consisting of documentary films, oral histories, and other materials of great cultural and historic significance created by the people of the District of Columbia. From Block2Block is an audio storytelling collective based in Washington, DC. The Latino GLBT History Project has the largest collection of materials covering over 25 years of Latino Activism in the Washington area’s LGBT Community, which consists of records and other documentation concerning the work of local and national leaders, artists and performers, organizations and events in history such as historic marches, Pride activities and the AIDS epidemic. The mission of Rainbow History Project (RHP) is to collect, preserve, and promote an active knowledge of the history, arts, and culture relevant to sexually diverse communities in metropolitan Washington, DC. The Historical Society of Washington, DC serves as the physical repository for the archival and manuscript collections. Whose Town? is a collection of interviews recorded by the Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) that seeks to facilitate further discussion around unhoused people’s working issues. HVAC is an open research group that includes people experiencing homelessness, students from universities across DC, and other DC residents. |
MARYLAND
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Preserve the Baltimore Uprising is a digital repository that seeks to preserve and make accessible original content that was captured and created by individual community members, grassroots organizations, and witnesses to the protests that followed the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015.
The Rita M. Cacas Filipino American Community Archives at the University of Maryland, College Park documents Filipino American communities in the Washington, DC metro area and other significant historic events related to the transition of U.S. occupation of the Philippines to the country's independence, including Filipino military and government service under the U.S. in the two World Wars. |
AROUND THE COUNTRY
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A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland exists as an online archive to collect, preserve, and provide access to the stories, memories, and accounts of police violence as experienced or observed by Cleveland citizens.
Documenting Ferguson is a freely available resource that seeks to preserve and make accessible the digital media captured and created by community members following the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014. Project RIGHT (Research Identify and Gather Historical Treasures) Now - Carolinas! works in partnership with communities in North Carolina and South Carolina to study and preserve local African American history. PRNC provides educational outreach, workshops, and programs to facilitate locating, identifying, and developing primary source collections held both publicly and privately. SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive) is an independent national non-profit organization working to create a more inclusive society by giving voice to South Asian Americans through documenting, preserving, and sharing stories that represent their unique and diverse experiences. |