Preserving Activism is an ongoing research project that is exploring Pratt’s relationship to the social movements that shaped the school and community from the time of its founding in 1887 to the present.
Elevated Voices: Elders Speak about Transportation Access
April 21st, 6pm, Myrtle Avenue Plaza
Opening Event as part of Foundations Expanded
Elevated Voices is a collaboration between elders who live in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, and Fort Greene; Pratt Institute’s Preserving Activism Beyond and Between Pratt’s Gates; and 7Cinema, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit video and media production organization. Its purpose is to make transportation access, service, and infrastructure more equitable by elevating the voices and experiences of elder community members and disseminating these oral histories to the general public. The project is supported by the Taconic Fellowship through Pratt’s Center for Community Development.
Protest at Pratt
During the 2020 Fall semester, Archives Graduate Assistants Miranda Siler and Nicole Marconi collaborated with Preserving Activism research fellow Amber Colón to create the Pratt Libraries’ first digital exhibit.
Oral Histories
The following oral histories are just the beginning of our attempt to uncover the 30-year history of Pratt’s summer youth programs that grew out of the Black Student Union (BSU) demands in the early 1970s.
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