ARCHIVING ACTIVISM

Created by Dr. Ashanté M. Reese and Dr. Ashley Farmer (UT-Austin), ARCHIVING ACTIVISM is a digital humanities project that foregrounds student activism in Austin. As an open-access digital archive, this space exists to make information about how primarily student-led movements changed local universities, the city, and beyond. We gathered materials from disparate archives, community organizations, and individuals to create this publicly accessible platform to support research, curriculum design, course development, and student service learning. As an interactive website, users and audiences alike will be able to examine the experiences, strategies, wins, and disappointments of students and allies from the 1940s until the present. ARCHIVING ACTIVISM presents only a sliver of the hard work, determination, and dedication of activists who fought to make the university, city, and world better. We hope it is a useful tool for learning and teaching obscured histories and a guide for budding activists who are looking for examples of how to be the change they want to see.