• Unit 1 focuses on how to use digital archives for research and accessing information. 
  • Unit 2 tells the story of the Marilyn Banks and the Organization for Black Struggle.
  • Unit 3 Explains how digital archives and collections can be used as a tool for self-reflection and can be used to better understand how social change occurs in society. 
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Each of these Units are designed to build off of one another in order to  give a more complete unnderstanding of how archives can be used as a tool of both self reflection and social movement organization. However, each of these lessons can be used individually with minimal changes.

Additionally, each lesson contains an activity that is related to the subject explored in them. These activities range from reflective questions to encourage group discussion to practices in applying the skills taught in the class. 

Unit 1: Introduction to Digital Archives

St. Louis, Portland: A Tale of Two Cities and Their River Intersections
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1089623098/

Unit 2: Marilyn Banks, OBS, and Social Change

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Unit 3: Archives and Societal Change

Children participating in an ACTION demonstration against St. Louis area churches
https://mohistory.org/collections/item/N22502
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