Tag: black-history

• Revisiting Project Breadbasket: As a Roadmap to Sowing the Seeds for Food Sovereignty, Economic Power & Self-determination NOW

  (L to R) Rev. Dr. Janette C. Wilson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Betty Massoni, 02.08.2024 . . . Jackson Oral History Project/ Operation Breadbasket Event 2024 Following Chicago’s long tradition of oral histories, the Chicago Theological Seminary has produced an oral history project on the city’s Civil Rights Movement — an archival work about Operation Breadbasket.…

  emilyeckstrand

  February 13, 2024

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  activism, archives, Black Power, black-history, boycott, civil-rights, civil-rights-movement, divest, history, Jesse Jackson, mlk, Oral History, Organizing

• The Rev. Jesse Jackson Oral History Project:

  . . . Photo Credit: Emory University Library . . . This past year I was tapped to assist in the digitization, preservation and access of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Oral History Archives and Project. This project has been presented in partnership with the Chicago History Museum (CHM) and the Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS). It…

  emilyeckstrand

  January 5, 2024

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  activism, archives, black-history, boycott, civil-rights, civil-rights-movement, divest, history, Jesse Jackson, mlk, Oral History, Organizing

• Imperial Image (& the Archive)

  . . . This Spring, buttressed between two library conferences, I was able to catch my breath for a moment to experience the exhibition, “Not All Realisms: Photography, Africa, and The Long 1960s”, at the Smart Museum of Art- University of Chicago, and I am so grateful I did. This exhibition captures the ethos of…

  emilyeckstrand

  June 25, 2023

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  African Diaspora, archives, Art, Art Exhibition, Art Gallery, black-history, Colonialism, Curatorial Research, history, Photography, Race