Activist History, Digitized

Activism has shaped American law and the law has shaped activism (sometimes through arrests and trials). Below are a selection of digital archives about various movements. Take a break from text-heavy law books: look at some pictures!

Antiwar and Radical History Project—Pacific Northwest, University of Washington (funding by Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies)	Antiwar and Radical History Project screen snip
A Ballot for the Ladies: Washington Women's Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1910, UW Libraries Special Collections	The Suffragette Bar postcard, from A Ballot for the Ladies (Caption: "Nothing but Ice Cream and Pretzels. Oh! Joy!")
Seattle Strikes! Labor and Labor History in Puget Sound, UW Libraries, with the Center for Labor Studies, the Henry Art Gallery	Strike Bulletin headline, from Seattle Strikes!
Famous Trials, by Douglas O. Linder, includes many trials with political aspects, including Sacco and Vanzetti, Haymarket, Chicago 7, Leonard Peltier, Pentagon Papers, Ruby Ridge, Mississippi Burning, Oklahoma City Bombing, Bill Haywood, Rosenbergs, . . .	Ethel and Julius Rosenberg,  from Famous Trials
American Radicalism, Michigan State University Libraries	Cover of The Centralia Conspiracy, from I.W.W. collection in American Radicalism
Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library	"Stop Executions" pin, from Pinback Buttons, Labadie Collection
Haymarket Affair Digital Collection, Chicago Historical Society	Photograph of globe bomb, People's Exhibit 130A in Haymarket trial, from Haymarket Affair Digital Collection
The Dramas of Haymarket, Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University	Capt. William Perkins Black, one of the defense lawyers in the Haymarket trial, from The Dramas of Haymarket
Raising Rebels, An Exhibition of Radical Children's Literature, Syracuse University Library Special Collections	Fairy Tales for Workers Children, from Raising Rebels
Brown-Tougaloo Exchange, Brown University Library	Student Nonviolent Coordinating CommitteeFreedom Songbook, from Brown-Tougaloo Exchange