CCC Launches "Place of Protest: Chicago's Legacy of Dissent, Declaration, and Disruption" Digital Exhibit
September 13, 2018
Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC) launched "Place of Protest: Chicago's Legacy of Dissent, Declaration, and Disruption".
Curated by Rachel Boyle, PhD, and using images, maps, and other documents from Chicago Collections member institutions, "Place of Protest: Chicago's Legacy of Dissent, Declaration, and Disruption" online exhibit explores fifteen case studies of protest in Chicago spanning nearly 150 years of the city's history.
From a makeshift bomb hurled into a crowd of police officers and laborers in Haymarket Square to a city-wide boycott of Chicago Public Schools in protest of continued segregation, the exhibit tells the stories of dissent among labor, civil rights, and antiwar protesters through archival images, documents, and oral histories curated from libraries and cultural institutions around Chicago.
The interactive exhibit encourages navigation though a timeline of events as well as an interactive map that reveals how local declarations uniquely expressed national tensions and the ways in which memories of protest shape Chicagoans' responses to urban conflict.
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