“Digitizing the Sound and Sight of American Women’s Work for Peace and Justice”

FAIN: PW-264110-19

Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390)
Wendy E. Chmielewski (Project Director: July 2018 to October 2020)
Victoria Russo (Project Director: October 2020 to present)

Digitizing, cataloging, and transcribing 650 audio and visual recordings of women activists involved in peace and social justice movements dating from the 1930s to the late-twentieth century.

The audio, film, and video recordings to be digitized under the “Digitizing the Sound and Sight of American Women’s Work for Peace and Justice” will bring to the public the voices and images of women in the twentieth century who worked for social justice and a peaceful world. While women have always been a significant force in the grass roots, citizen-led, volunteer movements opposed to war, primary resources in the form of twentieth century audio and visual recordings, documenting that participation, have not been as easily or readily available for research. This grant project would allow the Swarthmore College Peace Collection (SCPC) to digitize these recordings, provide the necessary metadata for on line access, and allow access to the recordings themselves to scholars and the general public around the world.

Associated Products

Swarthmore College Peace Collection Sound Recordings (Web Resource)
Title: Swarthmore College Peace Collection Sound Recordings
Author: multiple
Abstract: Digitized materials (project deliverables), from the Peace Collection's NEH digitization project are published on the Internet Archives, a publicly available platform providing broad access to people all over the world.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://archive.org/details/swarthmorecollegepeace-audio
Primary URL Description: Home page for the audio recordings of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection on the Internet Archives platform.

Swarthmore College Peace Collection Visual Recordings (Web Resource)
Title: Swarthmore College Peace Collection Visual Recordings
Author: multiple
Abstract: Digitized materials (project deliverables), from the Peace Collection's NEH digitization project are published on the Internet Archives, a publicly available platform providing broad access to people all over the world.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://archive.org/details/swarthmorecollegepeace-video
Primary URL Description: Home page for the visual recordings of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection on the Internet Archives platform.

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