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Chronicling Resistance

Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation
Archival documents from Chronicling Resistance, Enabling Resistance, Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 2018. Photo by Mariam Williams and Zoe Jeka.
Archival documents from Chronicling Resistance, Enabling Resistance, Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 2018. Photo by Mariam Williams and Zoe Jeka.
Photo of a 1943 protest against the Philadelphia Transportation Company. Courtesy of The Historical Society of Philadelphia.
Photo of a 1943 protest against the Philadelphia Transportation Company. Courtesy of The Historical Society of Philadelphia.

Philadelphia’s history of civic action will be brought into context with present-day social justice movements in a project that mines the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries’ (PACSCL) extensive archives related to community activism. Pew Fellow, poet, and educator Yolanda Wisher will serve as consulting curator, working with librarians and a team of ten “Activist-Curator Fellows” who will be selected based on their demonstrated commitment to community-based artistic endeavors. The team will research documents held in the special collections and collaborate on exhibitions, programming, and the creation of community archiving toolkits. Exhibitions and other public-facing programs in traditional, nontraditional, and digital spaces will make the PACSCL’s archives more broadly accessible and will cultivate a shared historical authority.

The total grant amount represents project funding plus an additional 20% in unrestricted general operating support.

Primary EventsEvents & Exhibitions
Archival documents from Chronicling Resistance, Enabling Resistance, Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 2018. Photo by Mariam Williams and Zoe Jeka.

Chronicling Resistance: In Search of High on the Hog

Nov 19, 2021
Free Library of Philadelphia Culinary Literacy Center, Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, 19103

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Chronicling Resistance: Saving Seeds, Saving Stories

Nov 20, 2021
Greensgrow Farms, 2501 E Cumberland St, Philadelphia, PA 19125

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Wall installation of a redlining map from the J. M. Brewer Survey of Philadelphia, William B. Dietrich Gallery at Parkway Central Library. Photo by Ryan Brandenberg. 

Chronicling Resistance Exhibition

Sep 22, 2022–Jan 31, 2023
Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103

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Archival documents from Chronicling Resistance, Enabling Resistance, Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 2018. Photo by Mariam Williams and Zoe Jeka.

Chronicling Resistance Workshops and Panel Discussions

Jan 7–26, 2023
Various Locations, Philadelphia, PA

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Talie Cerin. Photo courtesy of The Free Library of Philadelphia. 

Solèy Midi Performance by Talie Cerin

Jan 31, 2023
Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103

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Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation

Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation

The Free Library of Philadelphia is the city's public library, with 54 locations serving more than six million users annually. Its main branch on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is a grand Beaux-Arts building that houses the largest rare book collection in the country, in addition to a massive print archive. Recently, the Free Library renovated gallery space to showcase more of its extraordinary collections, including a selection of Fraktur, a manuscript-based folk art created by the German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the early 1700s.

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