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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Display at Beinecke Library

All are welcome to a a special one-display of highlights of Beinecke Library collections related to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to the African American freedom movement on view for the holiday in the courtyard level reading room. You will be able to see an array of materials, many drawn from the library’s James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, that highlight Dr. King’s life, legacy, and impact, and the long civil rights movement in the United States.

Art and Protest - Archiving, History, and Social Movement Culture

People organizing to improve their lives and communities produce culture, and that culture is central to social change. But what happens when the demo is over and the placards are strewn in the street? When a movement’s history is rolled up in a box under someone’s bed? Josh MacPhee (a cofounder of both Interference Archive and the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative) will discuss the contentious roles of institutions, art making, and archiving in the writing the histories of social transformation.

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