The Case for Grassroots Archives

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Date Written:  2013-05-02
Publisher:  Connexions Information Sharing Services
Year Published:  2012
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14628

Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.

Subject Headings

• Activism/Radicalism
• Alternative Communities
• Alternative Community History Archive
• Alternative Groups
• Alternative Lifestyles
• Alternative Media
• Alternative Newsletters
• Alternative Papers
• Alternative Policy Research
• Alternative Publishing Services
• Alternatives
• Book Preservation
• Book Sources
• Books
• Canadian Books
• Canadian Heritage
• Citing Sources
• Citizen Advocacy
• Citizen Involvement
• Collective Memory
• Communes
• Community Action Groups
• Community Building
• Community Groups
• Community Networking
• Community Organizing
• Co-operatives/History
• Cultural History
• Cultural Preservation
• Democratic Movements
• Digital Archiving
• Digital Asset Protection
• Digital Libraries
• Digitization
• Economic Alternatives
• Freedom of Expression
• Heritage
• Heritage Conservation
• Heritage Organizations
• Historical Records
• Historical Research
• Historical Sources
• History
• History/Canadian
• History of Political Thought
• History/Twentieth Century
• Immigrant History
• Independent Media
• Information/Access to
• Information Destruction
• Information Resources
• Information Sources
• Labour History
• Left History
• Libertarian Socialism
• Libraries/Archives
• Local History
• Manifestos
• Memory
• Newsletters
• Newspapers/Community
• Newspapers/Radical
• Online Activism
• Online Archives
• Online Collaboration
• Online Photo Archives
• Online Research
• Online Sources
• Ontario History
• Oral History
• People's History
• Political Action
• Political Advocacy
• Political Alternatives
• Political Ideas in Canada
• Political Leaflets
• Political Movements
• Political Participation
• Political Programs
• Politics/Rhetoric/Reality
• Preservation
• Primary Sources
• Programs, Strategies, Manifestos
• Progressive Politics
• Race Relations/Racism
• Reference Sources
• Reference Sources/Bibliographies
• Reference Sources/Chronologies
• Reference Sources/Indexes
• Resistance
• Search Tools
• Searchable Archives
• Secondary Sources
• Sixties
• Social Action
• Social Activism
• Social Alternatives
• Social Analysis
• Social Change
• Social Justice Issues
• Socialist Studies
• Society We Want
• Special Interest Groups
• Stories
• Story Telling
• Strategies for Social Change
• Subversion
• Toronto/Historical
• Underground Papers
• Women's History
• Workers' History