The Chicago Public Library received a $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to digitize and archive materials related to the city’s Black history, including items dating from the 1800s to the present day. BlackVoicesWTTW
recently — the Chicago Public Library received a $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to digitize and archive materials related to the city’s Black history, including items dating from the 1800s to the present day.
“[It] will allow us to process and digitize collections related to Black history that are here at Chicago Public Library, in addition to helping develop more of those types of collections,” said Stacie Williams of Chicago Public Library. “Also, it will provide a menu of public programming options at all 81 of our branches, and it will allow us to partner with Chicago and Illinois educators to help them use the collections for assignments and curriculum.
“I’m proud to live and support teachers in a city with such rich archival resources,” Wilson said. “This opportunity will support access to those resources, and more importantly, given my work, getting those resources into schools where young people can learn about them to not only look back towards the past, but … to imagine the future.”
Williams emphasized that the work the grant makes possible will open up new opportunities for all of Chicago to discover new things about its history. “While the Vivian Harsh research collection is very represented in terms of Black South Side history, Black people live all over the city of Chicago and we very much want our collections to be representative of Black people on the West Side, Black people on the North Side, queer Black people living all over the city,” Williams said. “Those are collections that we don’t necessarily have a great deal of documentation for.
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