Activism In The Archives Csun University Library The documentation of activism via photographs, newspaper clippings, papers, and more helps current and future activists raise public awareness, discover effective activist practices in different contexts, and ultimately realize real change in society. In special collections & archives users can perform research, engage in classes using primary sources, and view exhibitions. our collections are available to researchers in a supervised reading room.
Activism In The Archives Csun University Library The collection captures the crc’s decades of advocacy and activism, including partnerships with non jewish organizations and efforts to influence public policy, protect civil rights and educate the broader community. 1950 to date: an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of libraries. covers topics related to feminism, dissident gis, campus radicals, native americans, anti war activists, black power advocates, hispanics, lgbt activists, the extreme right wing press. The archival urge, it would seem, has never been stronger. but of the ‘radical or counter hegemonic public history making activities’ we have seen over the last decade or so, the most potent, perhaps, have come from a convergence of archives and fearless journalism. The collection captures the crc’s decades of advocacy and activism, including partnerships with non jewish organizations and efforts to influence public policy, protect civil rights and educate the broader community.
Activism In The Archives Csun University Library The archival urge, it would seem, has never been stronger. but of the ‘radical or counter hegemonic public history making activities’ we have seen over the last decade or so, the most potent, perhaps, have come from a convergence of archives and fearless journalism. The collection captures the crc’s decades of advocacy and activism, including partnerships with non jewish organizations and efforts to influence public policy, protect civil rights and educate the broader community. People of achievement in southern california was a live interview forum to discuss the work and histories of prominent local artists, artisans, authors, and book collectors. the program was produced from 1975 to 1985 by norman tanis who served as dean of the library from 1969 to 1990. Archival studies, as a discipline, has wrestled with whether or not to recognize the narratives created within the records we keep (dunbar 2006), as well as problematic claims of neutrality (ketelaar 2001; gilliland 2011; sutherland 2020). activists, community based archivists, activist archivists, and activist scholars have readily recognized the importance, and archival history, of creating. In our introduction we bring together memory, social movement, media and critical archival studies to offer a new perspective on archives and archiving as a tool for activism in the digital. In this essay the authors provide a summary history of archival activism, starting with the seminal 1970 speech by radical historian howard zinn in which he argued for archivists to rid themselves of notions of “neutrality”, and actively engage in socially meaningful work.
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