Keeping our Culture: Sharing 1960’s Civil Rights Familial Stories through Digital Humanities
A Session by Tyler Youngman , LaVerne Gray and Dr. Beth Patin
About this Session
This presentation focuses on perspectives during the African-American struggle for Civil Rights. Using techniques from digital humanities, the presenters utilize family-based documents to illuminate how familial experience informs archival collections and community resistance. The presentation explores both northern-urban and southern experience comparatively in the context of class and gender. The discussion illuminates the engagement of people of color striving for equity of access to spaces. The presenters will demonstrate the power of uncovering evidence, documenting the promise of libraries and archives, and the influence of narratives that are absent in the history of libraries and their communities of service.