Call for Volunteers: Help Archive the Women’s March on Washington!

Posted January 5, 2017

The Women’s March on Washington Archive Project is a group of archivists from the SAA Women Archivists Section (formerly roundtable), and having discussed the potential “hot spot” of the January 21, 2017 political protests wish to ensure the ephemeral nature of the many marches nationwide are preserved.

Here is the Call for Volunteers: 

Unlike many recent political protests, we have time to plan and put a documentation strategy into place. We are asking for assistance in documenting the marches, national and sister marches alike in the following capacities: collecting ephemera, outreach to local march organizers, collecting oral histories, and documenting the marches on video among others. You can join our Facebook group here, or reach out to Gayle Schechter, [email protected] (if in Boston) or the two admins directly (if you would like to be involved outside of Boston). Danielle Russell, daniellerussell.archivist@gmail.com and Katrina Vandeven, [email protected]. Currently, we are working on creating a digital aggregate platform where people can share their digital materials, as well as locating repositories for physical ephemera. We are also creating guidelines for performing oral history interviews during the march, as well as more formal oral histories after the event.

We really hope that you will be interested assisting with the preservation of these events, but understand if active archiving is not your passion. Please share this call to action amongst your archival friends, and if you are attending any of the marches, please keep us in mind for donating your photographs, videos, and other protest ephemera!