Contribute to our Brooklyn Resists Community Collecting Project

This week's Photo of the Week is a call to action. Did you know that one facet of Brooklyn Resists is a community collecting initiative? We invite you to share your thoughts, experiences, and digitized personal artifacts as part of the Brooklyn Resists community collecting project. Learn more about what this entails and read our statement of purpose and guidelines here. 

Our ultimate goal is to provide diverse perspectives of the events surrounding past and present racial justice movements. Contributors to this archive will be leading, shaping, and moving the conversation forward. Your contributions are essential to actively building an archive that represents the perspective of the people organizing and gathering at protests, demonstrations, vigils, memorials, marches, and community meetings over the past 18 months.

In keeping with best practices and especially during NYC Disability Pride Month, let's describe the photograph above in detail, too. This is a black & white image of a group of protesters kneeling and sitting in the middle of the intersection of Park Place and Albany Avenue in Bed-Stuy taken by Anthony Geathers in 2020. In the background there are buildings, trees, parked cars, and bicycles. 

Our team is actively learning and incorporating new accessibility practices to ensure our mission is universally accessible, and we have prioritized making the exhibition materials for Brooklyn Resists available to people of all abilities. You'll find this work detailed in our downloadable packet. Shout out to my colleague in our Education department, Julia Pelaez, for her amazing work on this. 

Interested in seeing more photos from CBH’s collections?

Visit the digital archive at stories.centerforbrooklynhistory.org. Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images, or the digital collections portal at Brooklyn Public Library. We look forward to inviting you to CBH in the future to research in our entire collection of images, archives, maps, and special collections. In the meantime, please visit our resources page to search our collections. Questions? Our reference staff is available to help with your research! You can reach us at [email protected].