PROJECT: Black Women’s Organizing Archive (BWOA)

The Black Women’s Organizing Archive (BWOA) brings together scattered archives of 19th and early 20th century Black women intellectuals, organizers, and activists. From the project site:

BWOA moves Black women unapologetically to the forefront of recovery and Black digital history projects to highlight Black women’s often lost, erased, or forgotten contributions to our intellectual histories and social movements. Comprised of students, faculty, and librarians based at the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk, at Penn State University, BWOA works in collaborative partnerships with community arts organizations, academic institutions, and repositories throughout the US, Canada and abroad to locate, digitize, transcribe, and share the collections and papers of Black women organizers, activists, and intellectuals.

Learn more about the project by registering for their upcoming virtual talk to be held on Tuesday, April 29 at 12:00 PM EDT, in which project leaders Shirley Moody-Turner (Penn State University) and Sabrina Evans (Howard University) will discuss the origins, values, and partnerships that have shaped the Black Women’s Organizing Archive. They will also present the resources available on the site for researchers and educators looking to engage with these materials. This presentation may be of interest to those seeking to create a digital project, archive or edition that is community centered.