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Across the American South, civil rights memory institutions created by city and state governments and private organizations, preserve and communicate complex civil rights histories. Each of these institutions, for different reasons, influenced by their particular cultural, histo…

This dissertation addresses desire for queer community history and the historically situated creation of community knowledge. Drawing on my work as founding co-director of the Pittsburgh Queer History Project, I approach this subject through the study of an underground gay and l…

African Americans have a long tradition of preserving their histories through archival projects. The purpose of the thesis is two-fold: to place African Americans in the history of community archiving and create tools to aid in creating these spaces for African descendants. The …