In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Christine Root, Project Manager of the African Activist Archive at Michigan State University, and Alan Wierdak, reference archivist and social media manager for the Labor collections in University of Maryland's Special Collections and University Archives, to discuss the importance of maintaining the records and artifacts of labor history and how the labor movement can apply the knowledge of archives to today's struggles. Watch now to see some interesting items from these archivists’ collections.
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Christine Root is the project manager for the web-based African Activist Archive and Overcoming Apartheid, both housed at Michigan State University.
Alan Wierdak is a dual-master's student in History and Library Science, with specializations in Global Interaction and Exchange and Archives and Digital Curation. He is also the reference archivist and social media manager for the Labor collections in Special Collections and University Archives.