Collaborative Preservation of Working-Class Histories: Social Concerns in the FWWCP Collection (Part 2)

In our first blog post, we wrote about our student’s archival work to organize the FWWCP Collection. Their work was part of a Civic Writing course, where they explored how community groups address social concerns through writing. Students explored the Collection, now consisting of over 80 boxes of materials, choosing themes highlighted by FWWCP members to focus their reading, including: Art, Food, Gender, Literacy, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, Migration, Race/Racism, War, and Work. The goal was to find, read, and summarize texts within the FWWCP Collection that connected with major themes, while writing user guides for future academic and community researchers interested in working-class identity, community literacy, and self-publishing. Read more