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Milwaukee Civil Rights,
Archives, and Digital History
a conversation with
Jack Dougherty
Cities, Suburbs, and Schools Project
Trinity College, Hartford CT
at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
February 1, 2010
Q1: Digital Archives
Q2: Dynamic eBooks
Q3: Born-digital eBooks
Q4: Digital Publishing Models
Q1: Digital Archives
How have archivists and scholars cooperated to improve
access to civil rights history via the Internet over time?
Q1: Digital Archives
How have archivists and scholars cooperated to improve
access to civil rights history via the Internet over time?
UW-M archives
opened web access to archival finding aids, mid1990s
will launch web-based “March on Milwaukee”
collection
- documents and images
- oral history interviews donated by author
Author’s companion website on UNC Press website
Q2: Dynamic eBooks
What will the new generation of dynamic eBooks look like,
and will they meaningfully enhance reader interactivity?
Q2: Dynamic eBooks
What will the new generation of dynamic eBooks look like,
and will they meaningfully enhance reader interactivity?
Current eBooks: simply “glorified PDFs” with limited valueadded features; retro-fit of existing book for the Internet
Q2: Dynamic eBooks
What will the new generation of dynamic eBooks look like,
and will they meaningfully enhance reader interactivity?
Dynamic eBooks: UNC Press to launch “Long Civil Rights
Movement” digital pilot featuring multi-layered features:
author-generated source links and sidebar comments
reader-generated comments at paragraph level
community conversations connected to other books
What will dynamic eBooks look like? (My best guess. . . .)
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Link to oral history interview
segment with Juanita Adams
Comments:
Reader1 wrote:
-I’m struck by the gendered
dynamics of this photo and am
looking for other studies of
women’s leadership roles in civil
rights organizing.
Reader2 wrote:
-Have you seen this new book
about Septima Clark?
Link to biblio citation via library
or Zotero LCRM group
Q2: Dynamic eBooks
What will the new generation of dynamic eBooks look like,
and will they meaningfully enhance reader interactivity?
Working examples of new eBook features elsewhere:
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence using
CommentPress peer review tool
Zotero bibliography tool and LCRM group citations
Q3: Born-digital eBooks
How will digital publishing opportunities inspire authors
and readers to communicate in ways not previously
feasible?
Q3: Born-digital eBooks
How will digital publishing opportunities inspire authors
and readers to communicate in ways not previously
feasible?
My current book project:
Q: What kinds of lines
have shaped metropolitan
life in US 20th century?
Municipal boundaries
Q: What kinds of lines
have shaped metropolitan
life in US 20th century?
Municipal boundaries
School districts
Q: What kinds of lines
have shaped metropolitan
life in US 20th century?
Municipal boundaries
School districts
School attendance zones
Q: What kinds of lines
have shaped metropolitan
life in US 20th century?
Municipal boundaries
School districts
School attendance zones
Mortgage redlining
Q: What kinds of lines
have shaped metropolitan
life in US 20th century?
Municipal boundaries
School districts
School attendance zones
Mortgage redlining
Residential zoning
Q: What kinds of lines
have shaped metropolitan
life in US 20th century?
Municipal boundaries
School districts
School attendance zones
Mortgage redlining
Residential zoning
The Color Line
A metropolitan story of Hartford, CT & three divergent suburbs
In West Hartford, real estate firms marketed selected private
home sales with access to more desirable public schools
1951
Hartford Courant, May 1, 1960
In Avon, school leaders collaborated with real estate firms to
transform rural town into an elite suburban district
1951
In Bloomfield, rapid decline was driven by real estate firms
engaged in racial steering and block-busting through schools
1951
Telling this story requires tools to help readers visualize
historical change in spatial inequality and civil rights strategies
see interactive historical mapping demo
Elizabeth Horton Sheff,
Hartford civil rights activist
Not only a “long” civil rights movement,
but also a spatially “widening” struggle over time
Q4: Digital Publishing Models
How can authors & publishers identify new models that
maximize access and quality, with fiscal sustainability?
Crucial for civil rights and public historians to push for
broadest access possible to everyday peoples’ history
Q4: Digital Publishing Models
How can authors & publishers identify new models that
maximize access and quality, with fiscal sustainability?
Open Access
Fiscally sustainable
Q4: Digital Publishing Models
How can authors & publishers identify new models that
maximize access and quality, with fiscal sustainability?
Open Access
- author self-publishes text & digital features on web
- publisher sells library subscriptions to ebooks
- publisher sells conventional book
Fiscally sustainable
Q4: Digital Publishing Models
How can authors & publishers identify new models that
maximize access and quality, with fiscal sustainability?
Open Access
- author self-publishes text & digital features on web
- publisher sells dynamic ebooks (text & digital)
via library subscription & direct to e-readers
- publisher sells library subscriptions to ebooks
- publisher sells conventional book
Fiscally sustainable
Q4: Digital Publishing Models
How can authors & publishers identify new models that
maximize access and quality, with fiscal sustainability?
Open Access
- author self-publishes text & digital features on web
- can author make a deal with publisher to donate
free access to dynamic ebook content to public &
school libraries in the location of the case study?
- publisher sells dynamic ebooks (text & digital)
via library subscription & direct to e-readers
- publisher sells library subscriptions to ebooks
- publisher sells conventional book
Fiscally sustainable
Q1: Digital Archives
Q2: Dynamic eBooks
Q3: Born-digital eBooks
Q4: Digital Publishing Models
Your comments and questions. . .