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Philly’s Chronicling Resistance curator plans to bring more voices and images into libraries and archives

The Free Library was awarded a $600,000 grant to collect photos, scrapbooks and documents of underrepresented groups.

Mariam Williams, director of the Chronicling Resistance project, stands for a portrait inside the Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Chronicling Resistance is a project that seeks to amplify stories of resistance in local special collection libraries, as well as to preserve present-day materials relating to resistance.
Mariam Williams, director of the Chronicling Resistance project, stands for a portrait inside the Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Chronicling Resistance is a project that seeks to amplify stories of resistance in local special collection libraries, as well as to preserve present-day materials relating to resistance.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer