Recommended Antiracism/Antioppression Resources, January 2023, curated by Kel and Jen
This month’s resources are centered around Black Civil Rights in the United States – highlighting some great videos we have access through AVON.
- Watch an interview with CUNY's Jeanne Theoharis in this 8-minute clip about Rosa Parks' life of community organizing and her pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement.
- Check out a one-minute clip of Jackie Robinson speaking in Birmingham at a 1963 Civil Rights rally.
- Who Designed the March on Washington? - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
This piece is about Bayard Rustin, the Black gay Civil Rights leader who was kept in the shadows (and eventually ousted by King) but organized the March on Washington.
- Bayard Rustin and Cleveland Robinson. 1963. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Organizing Manual No. 2. National Museum of African American History and Culture, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
This is an organizing manual that Rustin had made for the March that would have been distributed to organizations/groups who were participating.
